Hosea 3:1 Cross References
Hosea 3:1
1: Then the LORD said to me, "Go and get your wife again. Bring her back to you and love her, even though she loves adultery. For the LORD still loves Israel even though the people have turned to other gods, offering them choice gifts. "
Hosea 1:2
- When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so some of her children will be born to you from other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me, openly committing adultery against the LORD by worshiping other gods."
- So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
Jeremiah 3:20
- But you have betrayed me, you people of Israel! You have been like a faithless wife who leaves her husband," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:12
- Therefore, go and say these words to Israel, `This is what the LORD says: O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
- Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow me. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"
- "Return home, you wayward children," says the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will bring you again to the land of Israel--one from here and two from there, from wherever you are scattered.
Jeremiah 3:1
- "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
- "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
- That is why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a prostitute and are completely unashamed.
- Yet you say to me, `Father, you have been my guide since the days of my youth.
Micah 7:18
- Where is another God like you, who pardons the sins of the survivors among his people? You cannot stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing mercy.
- Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
- You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised with an oath to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago.
1 Peter 4:3
- You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy--their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
Jeremiah 31:20
- "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him.
Isaiah 45:22
- Let all the world look to me for salvation! For I am God; there is no other.
Psalms 123:2
- We look to the LORD our God for his mercy, just as servants keep their eyes on their master, as a slave girl watches her mistress for the slightest signal.
Amos 2:8
- At their religious festivals, they lounge around in clothing stolen from their debtors. In the house of their god, they present offerings of wine purchased with stolen money.
Matthew 26:50
- Jesus said, "My friend, go ahead and do what you have come for." Then the others grabbed Jesus and arrested him.
Psalms 106:43
- Again and again he delivered them, but they continued to rebel against him, and they were finally destroyed by their sin.
- Even so, he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries.
- He remembered his covenant with them and relented because of his unfailing love.
- He even caused their captors to treat them with kindness.
Hosea 7:5
- "On royal holidays, the princes get drunk. The king makes a fool of himself and drinks with those who are making fun of him.
Micah 7:7
- As for me, I look to the LORD for his help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me.
Zechariah 1:16
- " `Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I have returned to show mercy to Jerusalem. My Temple will be rebuilt, says the LORD Almighty, and plans will be made for the reconstruction of Jerusalem. '
Deuteronomy 7:6
- For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
- "The LORD did not choose you and lavish his love on you because you were larger or greater than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations!
Amos 6:6
- You drink wine by the bowlful, and you perfume yourselves with exotic fragrances, caring nothing at all that your nation is going to ruin.
Hosea 4:11
- "Alcohol and prostitution have robbed my people of their brains.
Hosea 11:8
- "Oh, how can I give you up, Israel? How can I let you go? How can I destroy you like Admah and Zeboiim? My heart is torn within me, and my compassion overflows.
2 Kings 13:23
- But the LORD was gracious to the people of Israel, and they were not totally destroyed. He pitied them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day he still has not completely destroyed them or banished them from his presence.
Luke 1:54
- And how he has helped his servant Israel! He has not forgotten his promise to be merciful.
- For he promised our ancestors--Abraham and his children--to be merciful to them forever."
Judges 10:16
- Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the LORD. And he was grieved by their misery.
1 Corinthians 10:21
- You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord's Table and at the table of demons, too.
Hosea 9:1
- O people of Israel, do not rejoice as others do. For you have been unfaithful to your God, hiring yourselves out like prostitutes, offering sacrifices to other gods on every threshing floor.
- So now your harvests will be too small to feed you. The grapes you gather will not quench your thirst.
2 Samuel 6:19
- Then he gave a gift of food to every man and woman in Israel: a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. Then everyone went home.
Judges 9:27
- During the annual harvest festival at Shechem, held in the temple of the local god, the wine flowed freely, and everyone began cursing Abimelech.
Nehemiah 9:31
- But in your great mercy, you did not destroy them completely or abandon them forever. What a gracious and merciful God you are!
1 Corinthians 10:7
- or worship idols as some of them did. For the Scriptures say, "The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged themselves in pagan revelry."
Nehemiah 9:18
- even though they made an idol shaped like a calf and said, 'This is your god who brought you out of Egypt!' They sinned and committed terrible blasphemies.
- But in your great mercy you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night.
Isaiah 17:7
- Then at last the people will think of their Creator and have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
- They will no longer ask their idols for help or worship what their own hands have made. They will never again bow down to their Asherah poles or burn incense on the altars they built.
Exodus 32:6
- So the people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings and peace offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and indulged themselves in pagan revelry.