Hosea 11:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 129:1

Often have they attacked me from my youth —let Israel now say—

Exodus 19:4

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.

Exodus 4:22

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.

Exodus 4:23

I said to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” But you refused to let him go; now I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

Isaiah 43:4

Because you are precious in my sight and honored and I love you, I give people in return for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my heart into the hands of her enemies.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: 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 16:22

And in all your abominations and your prostitutions you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, flailing about in your blood.

Ezekiel 16:6

I passed by you and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, “Live!

Hosea 10:15

Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

Hosea 12:9

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of the appointed festival.

Hosea 13:4

Yet I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

Hosea 2:15

From there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Malachi 1:2

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,

Matthew 2:15

and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”

Deuteronomy 33:3

Indeed, O favorite among peoples, all his holy ones were in your charge; they marched at your heels, accepted direction from you.

Deuteronomy 7:7

“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.