KJV King James Version
When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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Hosea 11:1
When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
WEB World English Bible
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
ASV American Standard Version
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Because Israel is a youth, and I love him, Out of Egypt I have called for My Son.
Surrounding context — Hosea 11
1 When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
2 [As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
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Matthew 2:15And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:Hosea 13:4Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.Hosea 2:15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.Jeremiah 2:2Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown.Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:Hosea 12:13And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.Malachi 1:2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,Ezekiel 16:6And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live.Hosea 12:9And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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