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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lo-ammi (Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
"Not my people." God told Hosea to give his second son by Gomer that name, to say Israel's northern kingdom was being cast off. Later in the book it is turned round, and those called "not my people" are to be called sons of the living God. Paul reads that reversal as the Gentiles coming in.
"Not my people." God told Hosea to give his second son by Gomer that name, to say Israel's northern kingdom was being cast off. Later in the book it is turned round, and those called "not my people" are to be called sons of the living God. Paul reads that reversal as the Gentiles coming in.
Lo-ammi, meaning “not my people,” was the symbolic name God commanded the prophet Hosea to give his second son by Gomer, representing God's coming rejection of the northern kingdom of Israel for its unfaithfulness (Hosea 1:9). The name is deliberately reversed later in the book, where God promises that those once called “not my people” will be called “sons of the living God” (Hosea 1:10; 2:23), a reversal Paul later applies to the inclusion of Gentiles among God's people (Romans 9:25-26). Hosea's children's names function as a set of acted prophecies rather than ordinary personal names.
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- Hosea 1:9
- Hosea 2:23
