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Hosea 1:3-5
Living Bible
Hosea 1:3-5
Living Bible
3 So Hosea married Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
4-5 And the Lord said, “Name the child Jezreel, for in the valley of Jezreel I am about to punish King Jehu’s dynasty to avenge the murders he committed;[a] in fact, I will put an end to Israel as an independent kingdom, breaking the power of the nation in the valley of Jezreel.”
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- Hosea 1:4 avenge the murders he committed. He went far beyond God’s command to execute the family of Ahab. See 1 Kings 21:21 and 2 Kings 10:11. breaking the power of the nation in the valley of Jezreel, a prediction of the Assyrian conquest of Israel twenty-five years later.
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