Hosea 11:1
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God’s Compassion Despite Israel’s Ingratitude
11 When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.(A)
Matthew 2:15
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15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”
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Exodus 4:22
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22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.(A)
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Hosea 2:15
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15 From there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.(A)
Malachi 1:2
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Israel Preferred to Edom
2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob,(A)
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Hosea 13:4
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4 Yet I have been the Lord your God
ever since the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
and besides me there is no savior.(A)
Hosea 12:13
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13 By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,
and by a prophet he was guarded.(A)
Hosea 12:9
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9 I am the Lord your God
from the land of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the days of the appointed festival.(A)
Ezekiel 16:6
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6 I passed by you and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, “Live!(A)
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Jeremiah 2:2
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2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord:
I remember the devotion of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.(A)
Deuteronomy 7:7
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7 “It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.(A)
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