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When Adonai first spoke with Hosea, Adonai said to Hosea:

“Go, get yourself a prostitute as a wife
    and children with a prostitute!
For the land is an unfaithful prostitute,
    far from following after Adonai.”

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. Then Adonai said to him:

“Name him Jezreel[a] for in yet a little while
I will visit the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu,
and I will destroy the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 1:4 Meaning, God will sow or God will scatter.