Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. Jehovah said to Hosea: Go, and take thee a wife of lewdness, and children of lewdness; for the land hath committed great lewdness; it is false to Jehovah.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3So he went, and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.
Cross References
Psalms 106:39Thus they defiled themselves with their works, And played the harlot with their practices.
Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils; Me have they forsaken, the fountain of living water, And they have hewn out for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 2:23How canst thou say, “I am not polluted,” “I have not gone after Baals”? Behold thy way in the valley! Know what thou hast done, A swift young camel, traversing her ways.
Jeremiah 3:9And when by the fame of her lewdness she had polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and wood,
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 →