Hosea 2:20

and thou shalt know the Lord The -knowledge" of Jehovah is repeatedly insisted upon by Hosea (see Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:4; Hosea 6:3; Hosea 6:6); not however a merely intellectual one, but that which rests upon spiritual experience, and results in moral practice. Such experience was lacking in Hosea's countrymen; -the spirit of whoredom is in the midst of them, and they have not known Jehovah" (Hosea 5:4). It was natural to describe as an element of the realized ideal that Jehovah's people should at last -know" him. How much weaker is the alternative reading, -know that I am the Lord", though supported by the precious Babylonian codex, as well as by the Vulgate!