Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured nor numbered; 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.’
⛓ Read Hosea 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
v.26 'in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be called children of the living God' is a verbatim quotation of Hosea 1:10 (LXX 2:1), continuing the Lo-Ammi reversal that Paul reads as the inclusion of the Gentiles among God's children.
High confidenceAllusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Hosea promises that those who were 'not my people' will be called 'children of the living God,' the precise idiom of being 'called children of God.' This eschatological renaming of the people supplies John's vocabulary for present sonship. The passage was a standard locus for adoption-into-sonship.
High confidence'You are children of the living God' — divine-sonship language behind 'they shall be called children of God.'
Medium confidence'In the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, it shall be said, You are children of the living God' anticipates 'these are children of God' / 'we are children of God' (vv.14,16); Paul cites this very text in Romans 9:26.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'In the place where it was said... 'You are not my people,' it shall be said... 'Sons of the living God'' links the sonship promise to the 'living God' temple language of v.16 and the not-my-people/my-people reversal. Volume moderate, coherence strong; Paul cites this elsewhere (Rom 9:26), raising availability and recurrence.
Medium confidence'You are children of the living God,' the promise of new divine sonship to those who were not a people, resonates with becoming God's children by birth from God (vv.12-13). Low confidence; thematic rather than verbal.
Low confidence'Sons of the living God' supplies the specific collocation 'living God' with sonship language that Peter's title brings together. Faint verbal overlap.
Low confidenceThe faithfulness-of-God-despite-Israel's-faithlessness theme (3:3) anticipates the Hosea citations Paul will marshal in Romans 9; God's covenant fidelity outlasts the people's apistia.
Low confidence