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1. Hosea’s Wife and Children

2. 1USTYahweh gave this message to Hosea son of Beeri during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and when Jeroboam son of Joash was king of Israel.BSBBSB: 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.
3. 2USTWhen Yahweh first spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to him,“Go and marry a prostitute.{ Some of} her children will result from her sexual relations with other men. Do this to show how the people of this land have been very unfaithful to me, as though they were an unfaithful wife who has abandoned her husband in favor of other men.”BSBBSB: 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.”
4. 3USTSo Hosea married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son for him.BSBBSB: So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
5. 4USTYahweh said to Hosea,“Name him Jezreel, because very soon I will punish the descendants of Jehu for all of the people that he slaughtered at the town of Jezreel. I will end the nation of Israel.BSBBSB: 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.
6. 5USTAt that time, I will destroy the army of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”BSBBSB: And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
7. 6USTGomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. Yahweh said to Hosea,“Name her Lo Ruhamah, because I will no longer pity the people of Israel. Instead, I will certainly remove them{ from their land}.BSBBSB: 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.
8. 7USTHowever, I will pity the people of Judah, and I, Yahweh their God, will rescue them. I will do it myself; I will not save them by using their bows, swords, warfare, horses, or horsemen.”BSBBSB: 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.”
9. 8USTAfter Gomer had weaned Lo Ruhamah, she became pregnant{ again} and gave birth to{ another} son.BSBBSB: After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son.
10. 9USTYahweh said,“Name him Lo Ammi, because you{ people of Israel} are no longer my people, and I am no longer your God.”BSBBSB: And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
11. 10USTYet someday the people of Israel will become a people group that is vast in number. In the very place where God said to them,“You are not my people,” he will call them,“sons{ and daughters} of the living God.”BSBBSB: 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.’
12. 11USTThen the people of Judah and the people of Israel will unite together and choose one leader for all of them. It will be a marvelous time when Jezreel happens, that is, when God brings his people back to their own land as though sowing them there as seeds, and they will prosper there.BSBBSB: 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.

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