Hosea 1:2

When Yahweh spoke at first through Hosea, he said to him, 1 “Go, take for yourself a wife who is a prostitute. 1 She will have children who are the result of her prostitution. 1 For the land is committing great prostitution 1 by forsaking Yahweh.”

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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

1This is the word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel.

3So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16and then you will even take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods, and they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods.

2 Chronicles 21:13but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to act like a prostitute, as the house of Ahab did—and because you have also killed your brothers in your father's family, men who were better than yourself—

Psalms 106:39They were defiled by their deeds; 1 in their actions they were like prostitutes. 1

Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils against me: They have abandoned the springs of living waters, 1 and they have dug out cisterns for themselves, 1 broken cisterns that cannot hold water. 1

Jeremiah 2:23How can you say, 'I am not defiled! I have not walked after the Baals'? 1 Look at what you did in the valleys! Consider what you have done—you are a swift female camel running here and there, 1

Jeremiah 3:9Her prostitution was nothing to her; she defiled the land, and she committed adultery with stones and trees.

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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