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    Hosea 11

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    A lion’s roar summons trembling children, and then the children become birds and doves flying home from Egypt and Assyria: the chapter changes its creatures mid-flight and does not explain itself.

    The care they did not recognizevv. 1–4

    Israel begins as a child loved and called out of Egypt, but the more the call is heard, the farther Israel goes, burning incense to carved images. Ephraim is held by the arms, taught to walk, healed, unyoked, and fed; the extraordinary part is that Ephraim never realized who was doing it. Kindness arrives here with cords and ropes, which is a very biblical sort of household arrangement.

    Judgment held backvv. 5–9

    Because Israel refused to repent, Egypt and Assyria appear as the possible destinations of a people who will not return: one as land to return to, the other as a power to rule them. The sword then enters the cities, while the people remain bent on turning away. Yet the speech breaks against its own fury. Admah and Zeboiim are summoned as comparisons without explanation, and compassion suddenly stirs before the destruction can be complete.

    The roar and the homecomingvv. 10–12

    The returning people first tremble as children at a lion’s roar, then tremble like birds from Egypt and doves from Assyria. The image has changed without asking permission, and the destination is now home. The chapter ends with a final contrast: Ephraim and Israel surround the speaker with lies and deceit, while Judah still walks with God and remains faithful to the Holy One.

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    1. Hos 11:1When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

    2. Hos 11:2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

    3. Hos 11:3It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

    4. Hos 11:4I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.

    5. Hos 11:5Will they not return to the land of Egypt and be ruled by Assyria because they refused to repent?

    6. Hos 11:6A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.

    7. Hos 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

    8. Hos 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

    9. Hos 11:9I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not destroy Ephraim again. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.

    10. Hos 11:10They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.

    11. Hos 11:11They will come trembling like birds from Egypt and like doves from the land of Assyria. Then I will settle them in their homes, declares the LORD.

    12. Hos 11:12Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 1Matthew 2:15where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
    • 9Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
    • 1Exodus 4:22Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
    • 4John 12:32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
    • 4Leviticus 26:13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
    • 8Jeremiah 31:20Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
    • 9Isaiah 55:8–9“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
    • 9Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
    • 9Jeremiah 30:11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
    • 11Isaiah 11:11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
    • 42 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
    • 8Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
    • 8Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
    • 10Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
    • 11Isaiah 60:8Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
    • 11Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.

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