This is the third reference to the old testament in Matthew...
14 So he got up and took along the young
child and its mother by night and withdrew into Egypt,
15 and he stayed there until the decease of
Herod, for that to be fulfilled which was spoken by Jehovah through his prophet,
saying: Out of Egypt I called my son (Matthew 2).
Here is the literal meaning of Hosea 11...
HOSEA CHAPTER 11
1 When Israel was a boy, then I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son [Jacob,
meaning Jacob and his progeny. Jacob was born again to be a son of God].
2 They [the
angels of the holy spirit] called them [plural
for Israel, to true worship]. To that same extent they went away from
before them [reacting against true worship].
To the Baal images they took up sacrificing, and to the graven images they began
making sacrificial smoke.
3 But as for me, I taught Ephraim to walk [in
righteousness], taking them upon [my] arms; and they did not
recognize that I had healed them.
4 With the ropes of earthling man I kept
drawing them, with the cords of love, so that I became to them as those lifting
off a yoke on their jaws, and gently I brought food to [each] one.
5 He will not return to the land of Egypt,
but Assyria will be his king [the king of the
Northern kingdom], because they refused to return [to
me].
6 And a sword will certainly whirl about in
his cities and make an end of his bars and devour because of their counsels.
7 And my people are tending toward
unfaithfulness to me. And upward they call it; no one at all does any rising up.
8 How can I give you up, Oh Ephraim? [How]
can I deliver you up, Oh Israel? How can I set you as Admah? [How] can I place
you like Zeboiim? [2 of the cities destroyed
with Sodom and Gomorrah] My heart has changed within me; at the same
time my compassions have grown hot.
9 I shall not express my burning anger. I
shall not bring Ephraim to ruin again, for I am God and not man, the Holy One in
the midst of you; and I shall not come in excitement.
10 After Jehovah they will walk. Like a lion
he will roar; for he himself will roar, and sons will come trembling from the
west.
11 Like a bird they will come trembling out
of Egypt [not the land of Egypt but areas
ruled by Egypt], and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I
shall certainly make them dwell in their houses [rather
than being in exile], is the utterance of Jehovah.
12 With lying, Ephraim has surrounded me, and
with deception the house of Israel. But Judah is yet roaming with God, and with
the Most Holy One he is trustworthy.
We do not know when this account stops or starts so we cannot do a noun count on it. Here is the one word symbolic meaning of Hosea 11...
HOSEA CHAPTER 11
1 When Israel [the
young sons of the JAC when they are first baptised in holy spirit because God
loves them and makes them into his angelic sons] was a boy, then I
loved him, and out of Egypt [the world]
I called my son [Jesus and those in any
subcovenant of the ARC. The saints are God's sons].
2 They [the
angels of the holy spirit] called them [plural
for Israel, to true worship]. To that same extent they went away from
before them [reacting against true worship].
To the Baal images they took up sacrificing, and to the graven images they began
making sacrificial smoke [they become
idolaters in TCC1 and in TCC3].
3 But as for me, I taught Ephraim [2NC
saints] to walk [in righteousness],
taking them upon [my] arms; and they did not recognize that I had healed them [they
did not know that they had been sanctified].
4 With the ropes of earthling man I kept
drawing them, with the cords of love [Jehovah
loved him as a boy], so that I became to them as those lifting off a
yoke on their jaws, and gently I brought food to [each] one.
5 He [2NC
saints who have joined TCC1 or TCC3] will not return to the land of
Egypt [the secular world], but
Assyria will be his king [the falled slaves
WSS1/GNS1 and WSS2/GNS2], because they refused to return [to
me].
6 And a sword will certainly whirl about in
his cities and make an end of his bars and devour because of their counsels.
7 And my people are tending toward
unfaithfulness to me. And upward they call it; no one at all does any rising up.
8 How can I give you up, Oh Ephraim? [How]
can I deliver you up, Oh Israel? How can I set you as Admah? [How] can I place
you like Zeboiim? [2 of the cities destroyed
with Sodom and Gomorrah] My heart has changed within me; at the same
time my compassions have grown hot.
9 I shall not express my burning anger. I
shall not bring Ephraim to ruin again, for I am God and not man, the Holy One in
the midst of you; and I shall not come in excitement.
10 After Jehovah they will walk. Like a lion
he will roar; for he himself will roar, and sons will come trembling from the
west.
11 Like a bird they will come trembling out
of Egypt [an unclean saint coming from the
world], and like a dove out of the land of Assyria [a
clean saint coming from the old true church now run by the evil slave];
and I shall certainly make them dwell in their houses [rather
than being in exile], is the utterance of Jehovah.
12 With lying, Ephraim has surrounded me, and
with deception the house of Israel [this
applies to the 2NC saints in the Watchtower - lying spies]. But Judah
[the LWs] is yet roaming with God,
and with the Most Holy One he is trustworthy.
HOSEA CHAPTER 12
1 Ephraim is feeding on wind and chasing
after the east wind all day long. Lying and despoiling are what he multiplies.
And a covenant with Assyria they conclude [ghastly
agreement between the 2NC saints in the Watchtower and the evil slave],
and to Egypt oil itself is brought.
2 And Jehovah has a legal case with Judah, even to hold an accounting
against Jacob according to his ways; according to his dealings he will repay
him.
3 In the belly he seized his brother by the
heel, and with his dynamic energy he contended with God.
4 And he kept contending with an angel and
gradually prevailed. He wept, that he might implore favor for himself. At Bethel
He got to find him, and there He began talking with us.
5 And Jehovah the God of the armies, Jehovah
is his memorial.
6 And as respects you, to your God you should
return, keeping loving-kindness and justice; and let there be a hoping in your
God constantly.
7 As regards [the] tradesman, in his hand are
the scales of deception; to defraud is what he has loved.
8 And Ephraim keeps saying, 'Indeed, I have
become rich; I have found valuable things for myself. As regards all my toiling,
they will find, on my part, no error that is sin.'
9 But I am Jehovah your God from the land of
Egypt. Yet I shall make you dwell in the tents as in the days of an appointed
time.
10 And I spoke to the prophets, and visions I
myself multiplied, and by the hand of the prophets I kept making likenesses.
11 With Gilead what is uncanny, also untruth,
have occurred. In Gilgal they have sacrificed even bulls. Moreover, their altars
are like piles of stones in the furrows of the open field.
12 And Jacob proceeded to run away to the
field of Syria, and Israel kept serving for a wife, and for a wife he guarded
[sheep].
13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel
out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.
14 Ephraim caused offense to bitterness, and
his deeds of bloodshed he leaves upon his own self, and his reproach his grand
Master will repay to him.
HOSEA CHAPTER 13
1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he
himself carried [weight] in Israel. But he proceeded to become guilty in regard
to Baal and die.
2 And now they commit additional sin and make
for themselves a molten statue from their silver [2NC
saints], idols according to their own understanding, the work of
craftsmen, all of it. To them they are saying, 'Let the sacrificers who are men
kiss mere calves.'
3 Therefore they will become like the clouds
of morning and like the dew that early goes away; like chaff that is stormed
away from the threshing floor and like smoke from the [roof] hole.
4 But I am Jehovah your God from the land of
Egypt, and there was no God except me that you used to know; and there was no
savior but I.
5 I myself knew you in the wilderness, in the
land of fevers.
6 According to their pasturage they also came
to be satisfied. They became satisfied and their heart began to be exalted. That
is why they forgot me.
7 And I shall become to them like a young
lion. Like a leopard by [the] way I shall keep looking.
8 I shall encounter them like a bear that has
lost its cubs, and I shall rip apart the enclosure of their heart. And I shall
devour them there like a lion; a wild beast of the field itself will tear them
to pieces.
9 It will certainly bring you to ruin, Oh
Israel, because it was against me, against your helper.
10 Where, then, is your king, that he may
save you in all your cities, and your judges, [concerning] whom you said, 'Do
give me a king and princes'?
11 I proceeded to give you a king in my
anger, and I shall take [him] away in my fury.
12 The error of Ephraim is wrapped up, his
sin is treasured up.
13 The labor pangs of a woman giving birth
are what will come to him. He is a son not wise, for in season he will not stand
still at the breaking forth of sons [from the womb].
14 From the hand of Sheol I shall redeem
them; from death I shall recover them. Where are your stings, Oh Death? Where
is your destructiveness, Oh Sheol? Compassion itself will be concealed from
my eyes.
15 In case he himself as the son of reed
plants should show fruitfulness, an east wind, the wind of Jehovah, will come.
From a wilderness it is coming up, and it will dry up his well and drain his
spring. That one will pillage the treasure of all desirable articles.
16 Samaria will be held guilty, for she is
actually rebellious against her God. By the sword they will fall. Their own
children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women themselves will be
ripped up.