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Hosea 1:2-4
Evangelical Heritage Version

2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go. Take for yourself an immoral wife and children produced by sexual immorality,[a] because the land has been committing flagrant immorality, turning away from the Lord.”

3 So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

4 The Lord said to him, “Name him Jezre’el,[b] because in a little while I will inflict punishment on the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezre’el. I will destroy the ruling power of the house of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:2 Or prostitution. The Hebrew term includes paid prostitution, but it also includes promiscuous sexual immorality which is not done for money. It also includes sexual misconduct by perpetrators who pay their lovers instead of the other way around.
  2. Hosea 1:4 Jezre’el means God sows, and it is the name of both a valley and a city in Israel. Ahab and Jezebel murdered Naboth at the city of Jezre’e l, and Jehu destroyed the dynasty of Ahab there.
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