Hosea 11:2

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

Key Reflection

In Hosea 11:2, God recalls Israel's past as a child, emphasizing his protective love and active involvement in bringing them out of Egypt. The original audience would have recognized this narrative through the lens of the Exodus story, understanding that just as God had rescued their ancestors from slavery, so too did he continue to guide and care for them throughout their history.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

As they called them, so they went from them -The prophet changes his tone, no longer speaking of that one first call of God to Israel as a whole, whereby He brought out Israel as one man, His one son; which one call he obeyed. Here he speaks of God’s manifold calls to the people, throughout their whole history, which they as often disobeyed, and not disobeyed only, but went contrariwise. “They called them.” Whether God employed Moses, or the judges, or priests, or kings, or prophets, to call them, it was all one. Whenever or by whomsoever they were called, they turned away in the opposite direction, to serve their idols.

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