{"book":"Hosea","slug":"hosea","ch":1,"genre":"prose","sub":"Hosea","prev":"daniel/12","next":"hosea/2","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[This is] the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and [of] Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel.","f":["Hebrew Joash, a variant of Jehoash"],"h":"Hosea’s Wife and Children","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him,“ Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself [by departing] from the LORD.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":3,"t":"So [Hosea] went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"Then the LORD said to [Hosea],“ Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.","f":["Jezreel means God sows; also in verse 11."],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"[Gomer] again conceived and gave birth to a daughter, and [the LORD] said to [Hosea],“ Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I should ever forgive them.","f":["Lo-ruhamah means she has not received mercy."],"style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them — not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, [Gomer] conceived and gave birth to a son.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"And [the LORD] said,“ Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.","f":["Lo-ammi means not My people.","Hebrew I am not yours"]},{"v":10,"t":"Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured [or] counted. And it will happen that in the [very] place where it was said to them,‘ You [are] not My people,’ they will be called ‘ sons of the living God.’","f":["Cited in Romans 9:26"],"style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"Then the people of Judah [and] of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one leader, and will go up out of the land. For great [will be] the day of Jezreel.[’’]","f":[]}]}