1 A word of YHWH that has been to Hosea, son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel: 2 The commencement of YHWH’s speaking by Hosea. And YHWH says to Hosea, “Go, take a woman of whoredoms for yourself, and children of whoredoms, for the land goes utterly whoring from after YHWH.” 3 And he goes and takes Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceives and bears a son to him; 4 and YHWH says to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease; 5 and it has come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.” 6 And she conceives again, and bears a daughter, and He says to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah [(Not Loved)], for I no longer pity the house of Israel, for I utterly take them away; 7 and I pity the house of Judah, and have saved them by their God YHWH, and do not save them by bow, and by sword, and by battle, by horses, and by horsemen.” 8 And she weans Lo-Ruhamah, and conceives, and bears a son; 9 and He says, “Call his name Lo-Ammi [(Not My People)], for you [are] not My people, and I am not for you; 10 and the number of the sons of Israel has been as the sand of the sea that is not measured nor numbered, and it has come to pass in the place where it is said to them, You [are] not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God; 11 and the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel have been gathered together, and they have appointed one head for themselves, and have gone up from the land, for great [is] the day of Jezreel.”
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Beeri
Diblaim
Named as the father of Gomer, whom Hosea married.
Cited in the guide: Hosea 1:3
Gomer
The daughter of Diblaim whom Hosea married; she bore him a son and later bore a daughter and another son.
Cited in the guide: Hosea 1:3; Hosea 1:6; Hosea 1:8
Hosea
The prophet to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Uzziah to Hezekiah and of Jeroboam, whom the LORD told to take a prostitute as wife.
Cited in the guide: Hosea 1:1; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 1:4
Jezreel
The son born to Gomer whom the LORD told Hosea to name Jezreel, for He would soon bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu.
Cited in the guide: Hosea 1:4
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- 1 Romans 9:25; Isaiah 1:1; Micah 1:1; Amos 1:1; 2 Peter 1:21
- 2 Hosea 2:4–5; Hosea 3:1; Deuteronomy 31:16; Psalm 106:39; Jeremiah 3:9
- 3 Isaiah 8:1–3
- 4 2 Kings 10:10–11; 2 Kings 10:7–8; Jeremiah 3:8; 2 Kings 10:29–31; Hosea 1:6
- 5 Judges 6:33; Joshua 17:16; Jeremiah 51:56; Psalm 37:15; Psalm 46:9
- 6 1 Peter 2:10; Hosea 2:23; Isaiah 27:11; 2 Kings 17:6; Hosea 2:4
- 7 Zechariah 4:6; Isaiah 12:2; 2 Kings 19:35; Psalm 44:3–6; Hosea 11:12
- 9 Jeremiah 15:1
- 10 2 Corinthians 6:18; Galatians 4:6–7; John 1:12; Romans 9:25–28; 1 Peter 2:9–10
- 11 Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 11:12–13; Jeremiah 50:4–5; Jeremiah 31:33; Jeremiah 23:5–8
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For this reason did Hosea the prophet take "a wife of whoredoms," prophesying by means of the action, "that in committing fornication the earth should fornicate from the Lord," that is, the men who are upon the earth; and from men of this stamp it will be God's good pleasure to take out a Church which shall be sanctified by …
At the beginning of the book of the prophet Hosea, who is placed first of twelve, it is written, "The word of the Lord which came to Hosea in the days of Uzziah, Jothan, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah." Amos also writes that he prophesied in the days of Uzziah, and adds the name of Jeroboam king of Israel, …
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He says, "And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God." Even the apostles understood this as a prophetic testimony of the calling of the nations who did not formerly belong to God; and because this same …
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… children of Abraham, and for that reason is rightly called Israel, therefore he goes on to say, "And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together in one, and shall appoint themselves one headship, and shall ascend from the earth." We should but weaken the savor of this prophetic oracle if we set ourselves to …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)