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Exodus 19 describes how God carried Israel out of Egypt and brought them to himself in the wilderness. Hosea draws on that first journey to promise a return to the wilderness, where Israel will respond as she did leaving Egypt.
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Exodus 19:4
Hebrew Bible
3 Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, “Thus you will tell the house of Jacob, and declare to the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I lifted you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,
Hosea 2:15
Hebrew Bible
14 “However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her. 15 From there I will give back her vineyards to her and turn the ‘Valley of Trouble’ into an ‘Opportunity for Hope.’ There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt. 16 At that time,” declares the Lord, “you will call me, ‘My husband’; you will never again call me, ‘My master.’
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Notes and References
... Hosea’s message, delivered to the northern kingdom in the latter half of the eighth century, is exemplary. The northern kingdom’s exile is portrayed as a reversal of the exodus: “They will return to Egypt,” Yahweh declares, “Ephraim will return to Egypt” (Hosea 8:13; 9:3), and the hope of Israel’s restoration from exile is portrayed as a new exodus: “I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness … as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt” (Hosea 2:14-15). Exile, however, means much more than Assyrian devastation of cities and the carting away of thousands of Israelites. ...
Morales, L. Michael
Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption
(p. 158) IVP Academic, 2020
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