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Hosea 1:1-3
Good News Translation
Hosea 1:1-3
Good News Translation
1 (A)This is the message which the Lord gave Hosea son of Beeri during the time that Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her.[a] In the same way my people have left me and become unfaithful.”
3 So Hosea married a woman named Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. After the birth of their first child, a son,
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- Hosea 1:2 get married; your wife … her; or marry a prostitute, and have children by her who will be just as bad as she is.
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