Hosea 1

1Yahweh’s word 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:13 · 2Ki 14:16 · 2Ki 15:32 · 2Ki 16:1 · 2Ki 18:1 · 2Chr 26:1 · +12 more

2When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.”Cross-references: Ex 34:15 · Deut 31:16 · 2Chr 21:13 · Ps 73:27 · Ps 106:39 · Isa 20:2 · +15 more

3So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.Cross-references: Isa 8:1

4Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:24 · 2Ki 10:7 · 2Ki 10:10 · 2Ki 10:17 · 2Ki 10:29 · 2Ki 15:10 · +20 more

5It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”Cross-references: Josh 17:16 · Judg 6:33 · 2Ki 15:29 · Ps 37:15 · Ps 46:9 · Jer 49:34 · +2 more

6She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:23 · Isa 27:11 · Hos 2:4 · Hos 2:23 · Hos 9:15 · +1 more

7But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”Cross-references: 2Ki 19:35 · Ps 33:16 · Ps 44:3 · Isa 7:14 · Isa 12:2 · Isa 36:1 · +8 more

8Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

9He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.Cross-references: Jer 15:1

10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 32:12 · Isa 43:6 · Isa 48:19 · Isa 49:17 · +14 more

11The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Ps 110:3 · Isa 11:12 · Jer 3:18 · Jer 23:5 · Jer 30:3 · +13 more