Later text
Hosea 12:5BSB
the LORD is the God of Hosts—the LORD is His name of renown.
Intertextuality Pair
Hosea 12:5 → Genesis 35:11-15
Allusion
Earlier text
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you." Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him. So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
Significance
Genesis 35:11-15 records God's second Bethel appearance to Jacob, where He identifies Himself as אֵל שַׁדַּי (El Shaddai, "God Almighty"), reconfirms the Abrahamic promises of nationhood and land, renames Jacob as Israel, and Jacob responds by setting up a pillar (מַצֵּבָה, matstsevah) and calling the place Bethel. Hosea 12:5 alludes to this scene by declaring "the LORD is the God of Hosts — the LORD is His name of renown (זִכְרוֹ, zikhro)." The prophet's emphasis on the divine name as Israel's "memorial" challenges the northern kingdom: the God who made covenant promises at Bethel is identified not as the golden calves now installed there (1 Kgs 12:29) but as YHWH Tseva'ot. Hosea thus reclaims Bethel's original covenantal significance from its corrupted cultic associations in his own day.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Longitudinal Theme — the divine name declared at Bethel: God's self-revelation to Jacob as El Shaddai with the covenant promises (Gen 35:11) is carried forward in Hosea's doxology that "the LORD is the God of Hosts—the LORD is His name of renown," reclaiming Bethel's covenant identity for YHWH against the calves installed there
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