Hosea's Wife and Children
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The word of the Lord that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, a in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of b Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
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When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, c "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have d children of whoredom, for e the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord."
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So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while f I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and g I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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And on that day h I will break the bow of Israel i in the Valley of Jezreel."
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She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, j "Call her name No Mercy, for k I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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But l I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I m will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen."
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When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.
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And the Lord said, n "Call his name Not My People, for o you are not my people, and I am not your God."
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Yet p the number of the children of Israel shall be q like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. r And s in the place where it was said to them, o "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, t "Children of u the living God."
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And v the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and w they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
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Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Micah 1:1
The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
2 Kings 15:1
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
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Hosea 3:1
And the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.
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Hosea 2:4
Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
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Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Ezekiel 16:15
But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.
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2 Kings 10:11
So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
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Amos 7:9
The high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
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2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
Judges 6:33
Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
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Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
Hosea 2:1
Say to your brothers, "You are my people," and to your sisters, "You have received mercy.
Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.'
Romans 9:25
As indeed he says in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Hosea 2:4
Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:23
Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
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Hosea 11:12
Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
2 Kings 19:35
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Hosea 2:18
And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Hosea 1:6
She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, "Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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Hosea 2:23
And I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, 'You are my people'; and he shall say, 'You are my God.
Leviticus 26:12
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
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Ezekiel 36:10
And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:37
Thus says the Lord God : This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.
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Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Romans 9:26
"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"
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Isaiah 62:4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
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Hosea 1:9
And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
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Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.
2 Corinthians 6:18
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
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Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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Isaiah 11:12 - 13
He will raise a signal for the nations and will...
Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall join the...
Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time, declares the Lo...
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my se...
Zechariah 10:6
I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I wil...
Ezekiel 37:16 - 24
"Son of man, take a stick and write on it, 'For...
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Hosea 3:5
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
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