Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
KJV
Sicut mane transiit, pertransiit rex Israël. Quia puer Israël, et dilexi eum ; et ex Ægypto vocavi filium meum.
Vulgate
ὄρθρου ἀπερίφησαν· ἀπερίφη βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ. Ὅτι νήπιος Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐγὼ ἠγάπησα αὐτόν, καὶ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μετεκάλεσα τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ.
LXX
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
ASV
כִּ֛י נַ֥עַר יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וָ/אֹהֲבֵ֑/הוּ וּ/מִ/מִּצְרַ֖יִם קָרָ֥אתִי לִ/בְנִֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֹהֵ֣ב
'hb
verb · 209×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×
נַּ֖עַר
n'r
noun · 239×
Intertextual echoes
Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.
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Matt 2:15 · exact_quote"And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son."Hosea's "out of Egypt" applied to the holy family's return
Themes
Prophecy
Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 4 passages
§219God's love for Israel is compared to a father's love for his son. His love for his people is stronger than a mother's for her children. God loves his people more than a bridegroom his beloved; his love will be victorious over even the worst infidelities and will extend to his most precious gift: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son."40
§370In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes. But the respective "perfections" of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.241 "Each for the other" - "A unity in two"
§441In the Old Testament, "son of God" is a title given to the angels, the Chosen People, the children of Israel, and their kings.44 It signifies an adoptive sonship that establishes a relationship of particular intimacy between God and his creature. When the promised Messiah-King is called "son of God", it does not necessarily imply that he was more than human, according to the li…
…and 1 more from this source.
1. Do we then run and labor in vain? Are we sowing upon the rocks? Does the seed fall upon the rocks? Does the seed fall without our knowing it by the wayside, and among thorns? I am greatly troubled and fear, lest our husbandry be unprofitable; not as though I shall be a loser as well as you, touching the reward of this labor. For it is not with those who teach as it is with h…
33. Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. These things being so, and the Resurrection of His body and the victory gained over death by the Saviour being clearly proved, come now let us put to rebuke both the disbelief of the Jews and the scoffing of the Gentiles. 2. For these, perhaps,…
'When he arose, he took the young child and His mother by night, and departed into Egypt: and was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called My Son.' See Matt. ii. 14-15 and Hos. xi. 1. Here again is prophecy fulfilled. In Hosea, God speaks of Israel as His son called out of Egypt; b…
Cross-references
- Deut 33:3 — Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
- Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
- Exod 4:22 — And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
- Ezek 16:8 — Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant
- Ezek 16:22 — And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
- Hos 2:15 — And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of
- Hos 2:15 — And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of
- Hos 13:4 — Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.
- Isa 43:4 — Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
- Isa 49:15 — Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
- Jer 2:2 — Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that
- Jer 31:3 — The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- Matt 2:15 — And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
- Matt 2:15 — And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
- Ps 129:1 — Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: