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Hosea 1:11
Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Hosea delivers this prophecy to the divided kingdoms of Judah and Israel following a declaration of judgment and future restoration, marking the moment when scattered tribes are promised reunification.
The words — The text employs נִקְבְּצוּ (nikbeṯû), "they will be gathered," and רֹאשׁ (rōʾš), "a chief," to state that Judah and Israel will unite and appoint a single ruler.
The thread — This regathering theme recurs in Hosea 3:5, where Israel returns to seek the Lord and David’s king, and in Isaiah 11:12 and Jeremiah 50:4, which similarly forecast the collection of Israel’s exiles and Judah’s scattered people.
Why it lands — The passage requires readers to acknowledge that political and spiritual division ends only through divine intervention, demanding a shift from reliance on human alliances to trust in God’s appointed restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Cross-references
- Hosea 3:5 Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
- Isaiah 11:12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:4 “In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
- Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
- Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Ezekiel 37:16 “And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Psalms 110:3 Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
- Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
- Micah 2:12 I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.