Hosea 2:1

New American Bible - revised edition

The number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor counted. Instead of being told, “You are Not-My-People,” They will be called, “Children of the living God.”

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days—oracle of the Lord. I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:38

They shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel and Judah are not left widowed by their God, the Lord of hosts, Even though the land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they walk according to my statutes, taking care to keep my ordinances. Thus they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 36:11

Upon you I will multiply people and animals so they can multiply and be fruitful. I will resettle you as in the past, and make you more prosperous than at your beginning; then you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:28

You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Ezekiel 37:27

My dwelling shall be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Hosea 2:2

Then the people of Judah and of Israel will gather together; They will appoint for themselves one head and rise up from the land; great indeed shall be the day of Jezreel!

Hosea 2:23

On that day I will respond—oracle of the Lord— I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

Zechariah 13:9

I will bring the one third through the fire; I will refine them as one refines silver, and I will test them as one tests gold. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them; I will say, “They are my people,” and they will say, “The Lord is my God.”

2 Corinthians 4:1

Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy shown us, we are not discouraged.

1 Timothy 1:13

I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and an arrogant man, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were “no people” but now you are God’s people; you “had not received mercy” but now you have received mercy. Christian Examples.