Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the Devar Hashem by Hoshea: And Hashem said to Hoshea: Go, take unto thee an eshet zenunim (wife of whoredoms) and yeladim of zenunim; for ha'aretz hath committed great whoredom, by departing from Hashem.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

In Context

1The Devar Hashem that came unto Hoshea, ben Be'eri, in the yamim of Uziyah, Yotam, Achaz, and Yechizkiyah, melachim of Yehudah, and in the yamim of Yarov'am ben Yoash, Melech Yisroel.

3So he went and took Gomer bat Divlayim; which conceived, and bore him ben.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16And thou take of their banot unto thy banim, and their banot go a-whoring after their elohim, and make thy banim go a-whoring after their elohim.

2 Chronicles 21:13But hast walked in the derech of the melachim of Yisroel, and hast made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to go a-whoring, like the whoredoms of the Bais Ach'av, and also hast murdered thy achim of Bais Avicha, which were better than thee;

Psalms 106:39Thus they made themselves tameh with their own ma'asim, 1 and went a-whoring with their own inventions. 1

Jeremiah 2:13For Ami have committed shtayim ra'ot (two evils): 1 they have forsaken Me, the fountain of Mayim Chayim, 1 and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, 1 that can hold no mayim. 1

Jeremiah 2:23How canst thou say: I am not tameh, 1 I have not gone after Ba'alim? 1 See thy derech in the valley, 1 know what thou hast done: 1 thou art a swift camel traversing her ways; 1

Jeremiah 3:9And it came to pass through the lightness with which she + 3:9 Yisroel took her zenut (whoredom), that she defiled HaAretz, and committed adultery with HaEven (the Stone) + 3:9 of the fertility cult of Ba'al worship and with HaEtz (the Wood). + 3:9 of the fertility cult of Ba'al worship

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 →

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