Hosea 1:9-10

Hosea's Wife and Children

⁹ And the Lord said, _n "Call his name Not My People, ₁ for _o you are not my people, and I am not your God." ₂

¹⁰ ₃ Yet _p the number of the children of Israel shall be _q like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. _r And _s in the place where it was said to them, _o "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, _t "Children ₄ of _u the living God."

1. Cross References
   Hosea 1:4
   And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
   Hosea 1:6
   She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
   
2. Cross References
   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.'
   Leviticus 26:12
   And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
   
3. Cross References
   Ezekiel 36:10
   And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.
   Ezekiel 36:37
   Thus says the Lord God : This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
   
4. Cross References
   Genesis 22:17
   I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
   Genesis 13:16
   I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
   
5. Cross References
   Romans 9:26
   "And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
   
6. Cross References
   Isaiah 62:4
   You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
   
7. 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.
   
8. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 14:1
   You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
   2 Corinthians 6:18
   And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
   
9. Cross References
   Psalms 42:2
   My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
   Joshua 3:10
   And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.