...celebration. Son of God In the Hebrew Bible, Israel was God's son. "Israel is my first-born son."'8 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."'9 "And you shall say to Pharaoh, . . . 'Let my son go that he may serve me.' "40 The people of...

...Suggested Carol: Jesus Christ the apple tree Hosea 11.1-4 (The figure of Hosea is hung on the tree) When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt...to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human...

...Suggested Carol: Jesus Christ the apple tree Hosea 11.1-4 (The figure of Hosea is hung on the tree) When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt...to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human...

...Suggested Carol: Jesus Christ the apple tree Hosea 11.1-4 (The figure of Hosea is hung on the tree) When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt...to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of human...

...make us at home. This movement from one sort of binding to another underlies these words of Hosea: When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt...went from me; They kept sacrificing to the Baals, And burning incense to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; But they...

...of promise. The key prophetic text adduced in the formula quotation of 2.15 is drawn from Hos 11.1: 'When Israel was a child I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.' The 'son' in Hosea is the people Israel as a whole; Hosea's metaphor evokes a tradition that goes all the...

...book of Hosea 11:1—4. "Hear the word of the Lord, O people. 'When Israel was a child, I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from us.'" Isn't that you and me? As children, God called us. As we grew older, the more God called, the...

...glorious, by way of the sea, beyond Jordan, the circuit of the nations.'" (Sanhedrin 104b) Egypt Has 11:1: When Israel was a child, I loved him; and out of Egypt, I called my son. The sayings included in Hosea 11:1-11 seem to have been delivered by the prophet himself to the inner circle...

...book of Hosea, when God refers to the past Exodus in terms of his paternal relationship to Israel: "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son" (Hos. 11:1). Finally, the first explicit use of the Hebrew word "father" (3&) for God in the Old Testament...

...illustration to bring out how Israel has become a virtual stranger to the God who called her into existence: When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. But the more I called Israel, the further they went away from me. They sacrificed to the Baals, and...