Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osse: and the Lord said to Osee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3So he went, and took Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived and bore him a son.
Cross References
Exodus 34:16Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.
2 Chronicles 21:13But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,
Psalms 106:39and was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:23How canst thou say: I am not polluted, and I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.
Jeremiah 3:9And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 1:2
Hosea I. We have now before us the twelve minor prophets, which some of the ancients, in reckoning up the books of the Old Testament, put all together, and reckon but as one book. They are called the minor prophets, not because their writings are of any less authority or usefulness than those of the greater prophets, or as if these prophets were less in God's account or might be so in ours than the other, but only because they are shorter, and less in bulk, than the other. We have reason to think that these… Read the whole commentary →