King James Version
Hosea 2:20 in the King James Version says “I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.”
Hosea 2:20 · KJV
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thee unto me in faithfulness”
H530literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity
“and thou shalt know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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