Hosea’s wife and children
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📚The word of the LORD that came✭ to Hosea✭, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah✭, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash✭, king of Israel.2 📚At the beginning of the word of the LORD to Hosea✭, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife✭, and have children by a prostitute; for the land has engaged in great prostitution✭, departing from the LORD”. 3 📚✭So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim. She conceived and bore him a son.
4 📚And the LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for in just a little while I will avenge the blood of Jezreel✭ on the house of Jehu✭, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease✭. 5 📚✭And on that day it will come about that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel”.
6 📚And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And God said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah✭; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but will utterly take them away. 7 📚✭But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them through the LORD their God, but will not save them by bow✭, or by sword, or by battle, by horses, or by horsemen”.
8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. 9 📚Then God said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi✭; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10 📚✭“Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand✭ of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And this will happen: in the place✭ where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people’, there it will be said to them, ‘You are the sons of the living God.’ 11 📚Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together✭, and appoint one head✭ for themselves, and they will come up out of the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel✭.