Hosea 1:2

God commands Hosea to marry an unfaithful woman as a living picture of Israel's spiritual adultery. The prophet's marriage embodies the message of a covenant people who have forsaken the Lord.

Cross-references · 21

• Hos 3:1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
• Hos 2:4–5Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
• Deut 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• Ps 106:39Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
• Jer 3:9Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.
• Rev 17:5And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
• Ezek 23:1–49Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
• Rev 17:1–2One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
• Exod 34:15–16“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
• 2 Pet 2:14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
• Ezek 6:9Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Jer 13:1–11Yahweh says to me, “Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don’t put it in water.”
• Ezek 16:1–63Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezek 4:1–5“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.
• Hos 5:3I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
• Jer 2:13“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Ps 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
• 2 Chr 21:13but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,
• Jer 3:1–4“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 20:2–3at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
• Mark 1:1The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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