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Hosea 1:2-3
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Hosea 1:2-3
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The Family of Hosea
2 When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:
(A)“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For (B)the land has committed great [a]harlotry
By departing from the Lord.”
3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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- Hosea 1:2 Spiritual adultery
Hosea 1:2-3
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Hosea 1:2-3
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Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous(A) woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness(B) to the Lord.” 3 So he married Gomer(C) daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Hosea 1:6
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Hosea 1:6
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Hosea 1:6
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Hosea 1:6
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6 Gomer(A) conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”),(B) for I will no longer show love to Israel,(C) that I should at all forgive them.
Hosea 1:8
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Hosea 1:8
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8 Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.
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Hosea 1:8
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Hosea 1:8
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8 After she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah,(A) Gomer had another son.
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