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15     And then I’ll give her back her vineyards;
        I’ll turn the valley of Achor, that “Valley of Trouble,”[a]
        into a gateway of hope.

This is where Achan was judged for keeping forbidden spoils of war when Israel first entered into the land after the exodus.

    In the wilderness of exile she’ll learn to respond to Me
        the way she did when she was young, when I brought her out of Egypt.

16 And I swear when that day comes, she’ll call Me “my husband” and never address Me again as “my master” as she did those other gods. 17 She’ll never invoke the name of any other master again.

Everyone will forget that gods by that name ever existed.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:15 Joshua 7:24

15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
    and will make the Valley of Achor[a](A) a door of hope.
There she will respond[b](B) as in the days of her youth,(C)
    as in the day she came up out of Egypt.(D)

16 “In that day,” declares the Lord,
    “you will call me ‘my husband’;(E)
    you will no longer call me ‘my master.[c]
17 I will remove the names of the Baals from her lips;(F)
    no longer will their names be invoked.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble.
  2. Hosea 2:15 Or sing
  3. Hosea 2:16 Hebrew baal