ris3n's Apologetics Codex

Passage

Hosea 1.10-11

Book: Hosea · ASV / WEB / KJV / YLT

Immediate context (±2 verses)

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ASV

8. Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9. And Jehovah said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

10. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11. And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:8-11, ASV)

WEB

8. Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. 9. He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

10. Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ 11. The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:8-11, WEB)

KJV

8. Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9. Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Loammi: that is, Not my people

10. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. in: or, instead of that 11. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:8-11, KJV)

YLT

8. And she weaneth Lo-Ruhamah, and conceiveth, and beareth a son; 9. and He saith, 'Call his name Lo-Ammi, for ye [are] not My people, and I am not for you;

10. and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye [are] not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God; 11. and gathered have been the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel together, and they have appointed to themselves one head, and have gone up from the land, for great [is] the day of Jezreel. (Hosea 1:8-11, YLT)

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Setting

  • Speaker: YHWH
  • Audience: the northern kingdom, with Judah brought into the promise
  • Location: the northern kingdom; Jezreel named again, now as promise
  • Time period: c. 750-722 BC, from the last years of Jeroboam II through the dynastic chaos that followed to the eve of Samaria's fall to Assyria

Theological reading

Verse 10 reverses the sentence of Lo-ammi by reaching back to the Abrahamic promise of innumerable descendants (Genesis 22:17), and does so in the very place where the denial was pronounced. Paul quotes it at Romans 9:26 and 1 Peter 2:10 applies it to the church.

Verse 11 adds what verse 10 alone does not: reunification. Judah and Israel are gathered together under "one head," which for a prophet working in the north is a substantial concession, since the northern kingdom existed because it had rejected the house of David (1 Kings 12). Ezekiel later develops the same hope at length (Ezekiel 37:15-24). The closing phrase, "great shall be the day of Jezreel," completes the inversion begun in verse 4: the name that meant a valley of blood now means the sowing its etymology always carried.

Key words

Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap.

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Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the most literal English translations available (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the public domain in the United States, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

  • ASV (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
  • WEB (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
  • KJV (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
  • YLT (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

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