Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah.

New American Standard Bible

And I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness.
Then you will know the Lord.

King James Version

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

Holman Bible

I will take you to be My wife in faithfulness,
and you will know Yahweh.

International Standard Version

I will make you my wife because of my faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.

A Conservative Version

I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shall know LORD.

American Standard Version

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.

Amplified


“I will betroth you to Me in stability and in faithfulness.
Then you will know (recognize, appreciate) the Lord [and respond with loving faithfulness].

Bible in Basic English

I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

Darby Translation

and I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

And I betrothed thee to me in faithfulness, and thou knewest Jehovah.

King James 2000

I will even betroth you unto me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

{I will take you as my wife} in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

I will even betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

In faith also will I marry thee, unto myself, and thou shalt know the LORD.

NET Bible

I will commit myself to you in faithfulness; then you will acknowledge the Lord."

New Heart English Bible

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea I will take thee unto myself, in faithfulness, - So shalt thou know Yahweh.

Webster

I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

World English Bible

I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I will even betroth
ארשׂ 
'aras 
Usage: 11

אמנה אמוּנה 
'emuwnah 
Usage: 49

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Hosea 2:20

Context Readings

Israel's Adultery Forgiven

19 And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies, 20 And betrothed thee to Me in faithfulness, And thou hast known Jehovah. 21 And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer -- an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.



Cross References

Jeremiah 31:33-34

For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

John 17:3

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

Jeremiah 9:24

But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 24:7

And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I am Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.

Ezekiel 38:23

And I have magnified Myself, and sanctified Myself, And I have been known before the eyes of many nations, And they have known that I am Jehovah!

Hosea 2:19

And I have betrothed thee to Me to the age, And betrothed thee to Me in righteousness, And in judgment, and kindness, and mercies,

Hosea 6:6

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

Hosea 13:4

And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, And a God besides Me thou dost not know, And a Saviour -- there is none save Me.

Matthew 11:27

All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.

Luke 10:22

All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.'

John 8:55

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

2 Corinthians 4:6

because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:8

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

Colossians 1:10

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

2 Timothy 1:12

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

Hebrews 8:11

and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

1 John 4:6

we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

1 John 5:20

and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

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