Hosea 1:2-4

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²When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a ^[a]wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by ^[b]not following the Lord.” ³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. ⁴And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for yet in a little while I will avenge the blood [that was shed in the Valley] of Jezreel and inflict the punishment for it on the house of ^[c]Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the ^[d]house of Israel.^(A)

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Footnotes

Hosea 1:2 Some scholars interpret this to mean that Gomer was chaste at the time of the marriage, but later became an adulteress. As such, she symbolizes the future unfaithfulness of Israel.
Hosea 1:2 Lit forsaking.
Hosea 1:4 Jehu murdered Ahab’s sons in order to seize the throne of Israel.
Hosea 1:4 I.e. Israel, the Northern Kingdom, which included ten of the original tribes of Israel. Samaria was the capital city.