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The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri,
1in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of
2Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea,
3"Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have
4children of whoredom, for
5the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD."
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So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while
6I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and
7I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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And on that day
8I will break the bow of Israel
9in the Valley of Jezreel."
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She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him,
10"Call her name No Mercy, for
11I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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But
12I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I
13will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."
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When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.
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And the LORD said,
14"Call his name Not My People, for
15you are not my people, and I am not your God."
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Yet
16the number of the children of Israel shall be
17like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered.
18And
19in the place where it was said to them,
20"You are not my people," it shall be said to them,
21"Children of
22the living God."
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And
23the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and
24they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.