Hosea’s Marriage and Children

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, He said this to him:

Go and marry a promiscuous wife(A)
and have children of promiscuity,
for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity
by abandoning the Lord.

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So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.(A)

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She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, and the Lord said to him:

Name her No Compassion,[a]
for I will no longer have compassion
on the house of Israel.
I will certainly take them away.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:6 Or Lo-ruhamah

After Gomer had weaned No Compassion, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

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