Hosea 11:1

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Hosea 11:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

2 But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

3 It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

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Hosea 2:15

There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Ezekiel 16:6

Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,

Exodus 4:22

Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

Matthew 2:15

where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”