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Hosea 2:2-13

The New Testament’s use of Hosea

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts; Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst. Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness; For their mother has played […]

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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.

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 12:38-42

'Adulterous' for the unfaithful covenant people draws on the prophetic marriage metaphor (Israel as faithless spouse); grounds 'adulterous generation' in Hosea's idiom.

Medium confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

John 4:16-19 ?

Israel as the adulterous wife pursuing many lovers/baalim supplies the prophetic marriage-and-apostasy grammar behind the husbands motif. Faint and contested, but coherent with reading the woman's marital history as covenantal figure.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Hosea 2
Hosea 2:15 2Hosea 2:19-20 8Hosea 2:23 4