Hosea 1

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¹This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel. ✦ ²When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.” ✦ ³So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. ✦ ⁴Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. ✦ ⁵And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” ✦ ⁶Gomer again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and the LORD said to Hosea, “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them. ✦ ⁷Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.” ✦ ⁸After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son. ⁹And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God. ✦ ¹⁰Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ✦ ¹¹Then the people of Judah and of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great will be the day of Jezreel. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 2 ·8 2 Kgs 10 ·4 2 Kgs 15 ·4 Jer 3 ·4 2 Kgs 17 ·3 Jer 23 ·3 Luke 1 ·3 Hos 1 ·3

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God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

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