Hosea 1:4

Which verses does Hosea 1:4 point to?

The 20 strongest of 26, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. 2 Kings 10:10–116 votes

   Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.” So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of Ahab, as well as all his great men and close friends and priests, leaving him without a single survivor.

2. 2 Kings 10:7–85 votes

   And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. When the messenger arrived, he told Jehu, “They have brought the heads of the sons of the king.” And Jehu ordered, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

3. Jeremiah 3:84 votes

   She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.

4. 2 Kings 9:24–253 votes

   Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot. And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:

5. 2 Kings 10:29–313 votes

   but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan. Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.” …

6. 2 Kings 17:6–233 votes

   In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes. All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods …

7. 2 Kings 18:9–123 votes

   In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it. And at the end of three years, the Assyrians captured it. So Samaria was captured in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel. …

8. Hosea 1:63 votes

   Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.

9. Hosea 1:93 votes

   And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

10. Ezekiel 23:102 votes

    They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and put her to the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgment against her.

11. Hosea 2:132 votes
12. Hosea 2:222 votes
13. Hosea 9:172 votes
14. 2 Kings 10:171 vote
15. 2 Kings 15:10–121 vote
16. 2 Kings 15:291 vote

    In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.

17. 1 Chronicles 5:25–261 vote
18. Isaiah 7:141 vote

    Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.

19. Isaiah 9:61 vote
20. Jeremiah 23:21 vote

Which verses point to Hosea 1:4?

The 10 strongest of 23.

• Luke 1:13 7
• 1 Kings 16:7 3
• 2 Kings 17:23 3
• Isaiah 8:3 3
• Ezekiel 4:1 3
• Hosea 2:22 3
• Hosea 4:9 3
• Genesis 4:15 2
• Numbers 22:22 2
• Joshua 17:16 2