Genesis 28:14

Hebrew Bible

13 and the Lord stood at its top. He said, “I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants. 15 I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”

Hosea 4:2

Hebrew Bible

1 Listen to the Lord’s message, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God. 2 There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and breaking out5 of bloodshed. 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

 Notes and References

"... Scholars debate whether Hosea's language (4:2) indicates a fixed or fluid form of the Decalogue by the eighth century BC. The variant order of the commands (i.e., 3, 9, 6, 8, 7) when compared with Exodus 20:2-17 (Deuteronomy 5:6-21) does not indicate the fluidity of the Decalogue at the time of Hosea. Rather, it merely illustrates Hosea's interpretive use of his source (i.e., contextual awareness). Hosea evokes five of the Ten Commandments by conjoining five infinitive absolutes as the subject of the verb ('to break out, spread out'), thus emphasizing the profuse outbreak of covenant infidelity. (Hosea intentionally alludes to the Abrahamic promise there by way of reversal due to Israel's covenant infidelity. Hosea is intentionally heightening the irony of the situation. Whereas Israel was to obey YHWH and experience his blessing of the fulfillment of this Abrahamic promise, they have disobeyed, and the promise is reversed. While Abraham's 'seed' was to break out (Genesis 28) and fill the land, instead covenant-breaking breaks out and fills the land) ..."

Bass, Derek Drummond Hosea's Use of Scripture: An Analysis of His Hermeneutics (p. 162) The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008

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