1This 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.[ † ]2 Chronicles 26Isaiah 1:1Amos 1:12 Kings 15:5-7, 32-382 Chronicles 27Micah 1:12 Kings 16:1-202 Chronicles 282 Kings 18-202 Chronicles 29:1-32:332 Kings 13:132 Kings 14:23-29
2When 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.”[ † ]Hosea 3:1Deuteronomy 31:16Judges 2:17Psalms 73:27Jeremiah 2:13Ezekiel 16:1-59Ezekiel 23:1-49
3So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4Then 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.[ † ]2 Kings 10:112 Kings 15:8-102 Kings 17:6-232 Kings 18:11 5And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”[ † ]2 Kings 15:29
6Gomer 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.[ † ]2 Kings 17:6 7Yet 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.”[ † ]2 Kings 19:29-35Isaiah 30:18Isaiah 37:36-37Psalms 44:3-7Zechariah 4:6
8After she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, Gomer conceived and gave birth to a son. 9And the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.
10Yet 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.’[ † ]Genesis 22:17Genesis 32:12Jeremiah 33:221 Peter 2:10Romans 9:26Isaiah 63:16Isaiah 64:8John 1:12 11Then 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.[ † ]Isaiah 11:11-13Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 50:4Ezekiel 34:23Ezekiel 37:15-28