[282] Hosea 11: Out of Egypt I called my son

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 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 [, meaning and his progeny. 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 One in the midst of you; and I shall not come in excitement.
10 After 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 .
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 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 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 [ and those in any subcovenant of the . 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 and in ].
3 But as for me, I taught Ephraim [ 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 [ 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 [ saints who have joined or ] will not return to the land of Egypt [the secular world], but Assyria will be his king [the falled slaves / and /], 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 One in the midst of you; and I shall not come in excitement.
10 After 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 .
12 With lying, Ephraim has surrounded me, and with deception the house of Israel [this applies to the saints in the Watchtower - lying spies]. But Judah [the s] is yet roaming with God, and with the Most 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 saints in the Watchtower and the evil slave], and to Egypt oil itself is brought.
2 And has a legal case with Judah, even to hold an accounting against 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 the God of the armies, 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 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 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 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 [ 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 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 , 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.