Hosea 1:6-7

Hosea's Wife and Children

⁶ She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, _j "Call her name No Mercy, ₁ for _k I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all. ⁷ But _l I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I _m will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."

1. Cross References
   Hosea 1:9
   And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
   Hosea 2:1
   Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy.
   Hosea 2:23
   And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
   Romans 9:25
   As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
   1 Peter 2:10
   Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
   
2. Cross References
   Hosea 2:4
   Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
   2 Kings 17:6
   In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
   2 Kings 17:23
   Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
   
3. Cross References
   Hosea 11:12
   Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
   2 Kings 19:35
   And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
   
4. Cross References
   Hosea 2:18
   And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
   Zechariah 4:6
   Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
   Zechariah 9:10
   I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.