Hosea 1:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The number

Hebrews 11:12

And it

Romans 9:25

It was said

1 Peter 2:9

Ye are the sons

General references

Psalm 102:22

Ezekiel 11:17

Romans 3:29

Bible References

The number

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”

Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand,
and the offspring of your body like its grains;
their name would not be cut off
or eliminated from My presence.

But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

Though the number of Israel’s sons
is like the sand of the sea,

only the remnant will be saved;

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

And it

As He also says in Hosea:

I will call Not My People, My People,
and she who is Unloved, Beloved.

It was said

I will sow her in the land for Myself,
and I will have compassion
on No Compassion;
I will say to Not My People:
You are My people,
and he will say, “You are My God.”

I will say to the north: Give them up!
and to the south: Do not hold them back!
Bring My sons from far away,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Your builders hurry;
those who destroy and devastate you will leave you.

“Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth;
burst into song and shout,
you who have not been in labor!
For the children of the forsaken one will be more
than the children of the married woman,”
says the Lord.

Raise your eyes and look around:
they all gather and come to you;
your sons will come from far away,
and your daughters will be carried on the hip.

They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

But you are a chosen race,

a royal priesthood,

a holy nation,

a people for His possession,

so that you may proclaim the praises

of the One who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light.

Ye are the sons

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

I will be a Father

to you,

and you will be sons

and daughters to Me,

says the Lord Almighty.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

General references

when peoples and kingdoms are assembled
to serve the Lord.

“Therefore say: This is what the Lord God says: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, for Gentiles too,