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 […]
⛓ Read Hosea 2 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.
Echo1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'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.
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