Hosea 11:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 4:22 : 22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:
  • Matt 2:15 : 15 And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son.
  • Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
  • Hos 12:9 : 9 And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
  • Hos 12:13 : 13 And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Hos 13:4 : 4 But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.
  • Mal 1:2 : 2 You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,
  • Ezek 16:6 : 6 And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

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  • Hos 11:2-4
    3 verses
    79%

    2 When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

    3 But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.

    4 I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.

  • Exod 4:22-23
    2 verses
    78%

    22 And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

    23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

  • Amos 3:1
    77%

    1 Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  • Ps 114:1
    77%

    1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

  • Matt 2:15
    76%

    15 And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son.

  • Jer 3:19
    75%

    19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

  • Jer 31:9-10
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    74%

    9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

    10 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.

  • Hos 12:13
    74%

    13 And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

  • Isa 1:2
    74%

    2 Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.

  • Exod 13:8
    73%

    8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.

  • Jer 31:20
    73%

    20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.

  • Judg 6:8
    73%

    8 The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;

  • Lev 25:55
    73%

    55 For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 13:14
    73%

    14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

  • Hos 11:8
    73%

    8 How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

  • Amos 9:7
    73%

    7 Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?

  • 1 Sam 10:18
    72%

    18 And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:

  • Jer 11:4
    72%

    4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:

  • Isa 44:1
    72%

    1 And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:

  • Jer 31:3
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    3 From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

  • Judg 11:16
    72%

    16 But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

  • Exod 3:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.

    10 Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

  • Gen 37:3
    71%

    3 Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

  • Jer 31:1
    71%

    1 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

  • Deut 4:37
    71%

    37 And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

  • Mal 1:2
    71%

    2 You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,

  • Hos 9:10
    71%

    10 I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
    71%

    8 When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

  • Amos 2:11
    71%

    11 And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.

  • Ezek 20:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;

    6 In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:

  • Jer 2:2
    71%

    2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

  • Deut 6:21
    71%

    21 Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    71%

    7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

  • Isa 46:3
    71%

    3 Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

  • Exod 6:5
    71%

    5 And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement.

  • Hos 8:2
    70%

    2 They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

  • Jer 11:7
    70%

    7 For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.

  • Ps 81:11
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    11 But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

  • Num 8:16
    70%

    16 For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.

  • Mic 7:15
    70%

    15 As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, let us see things of wonder.

  • Jer 34:13
    70%

    13 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

  • Ezek 20:10
    70%

    10 So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.

  • Prov 4:3
    70%

    3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

  • Deut 7:8
    70%

    8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.