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Hosea 2:15
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks to Israel, personified as a wife, in a future moment of restoration that follows the wilderness period of verse 14. It is a covenantal promise framed in marital language, leading directly into the address shift of verse 16.
The words — פֶּתַח (pethach) literally means "a door" or "entrance"; the BSB's "gateway of hope" adds a qualifier not present in the Hebrew noun itself. The image is of a physical opening, not an abstract concept.
The thread — The "days of youth" and "came up out of Egypt" echo Jeremiah 2:2's "devotion of your youth" and Hosea 11:1's "out of Egypt I called My son." Ezekiel 28:26 pairs secure dwelling with planting vineyards, a parallel restoration motif.
Why it lands — It asks the reader to hold that the same place which marked failure (Achor, Joshua 7) is redefined as an entrance rather than erased. Restoration here is not a reset but a repurposing of what already happened.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 2:2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Ezekiel 28:26 And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
- Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
- Joshua 7:26 And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.
- Isaiah 65:21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- Ezekiel 16:8 Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 16:22 And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
- Ezekiel 16:60 But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
- Amos 9:14 I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
- John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.