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This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the LORD and worshiping other gods.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the LORD said, “Name the child Jezreel, for I am about to punish King Jehu’s dynasty to avenge the murders he committed at Jezreel. In fact, I will bring an end to Israel’s independence. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I will break its military power in the Jezreel Valley.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the LORD said to Hosea, “Name your daughter Lo-ruhamah—‘Not loved’—for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But I will show love to the people of Judah. I will free them from their enemies—not with weapons and armies or horses and charioteers, but by my power as the LORD their God.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>After Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she again became pregnant and gave birth to a second son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi—‘Not my people’—for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a>“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite together. They will choose one leader for themselves, and they will return from exile together. What a day that will be—the day of Jezreel<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a>—when God will again plant his people in his land.</p><p class="reg"><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Joash,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Jehoash.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">a promiscuous woman.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">Verses 1:10-11 are numbered 2:1-2 in Hebrew text.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:11 </span><span class="it">Jezreel</span><span class="ft"> means “God plants.”</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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