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Hosea 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Hosea’s Unfaithful Wife

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:1 - 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.
The Family of Hosea

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea:

“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For the land has committed great harlotry
By departing from the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:3 - So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:5 - It shall come to pass in that day
That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:

“Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,[fn]
For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
But I will utterly take them away.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:7 - Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah,
Will save them by the LORD their God,
And will not save them by bow,
Nor by sword or battle,
By horses or horsemen.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:8 - Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:9 - Then God said:

“Call his name Lo-Ammi,[fn]
For you are not My people,
And I will not be your God.
The Restoration of Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:10 - “Yet the number of the children of Israel
Shall be as the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered.
And it shall come to pass
In the place where it was said to them,
‘You are not My people,’[fn]
There it shall be said to them,
‘You are sons of the living God.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:11 - Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel
Shall be gathered together,
And appoint for themselves one head;
And they shall come up out of the land,
For great will be the day of Jezreel!
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally No-Mercy
Or That I may forgive them at all
Literally Not-My-People
Hebrew lo-ammi (compare verse 9)
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Hosea Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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