❤️WEB · Hosea 11:1

What does Hosea 11:1 mean?

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

— Hosea 11:1 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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

2

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

3

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

4

I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

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