Hosea 1:2
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the Lord.”
The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
When the Lord spoke at first by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the Lord.”
When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- beginning
- Mark 1:1
- Go
- Hosea 3:1; Isaiah 20:2, 3; Jeremiah 13:1–11; Ezekiel 4:1
- children
- Hosea 2:4; 2 Peter 2:14
- for
- Exodus 34:15, 16; Deuteronomy 31:16; 2 Chronicles 21:13; Psalm 73:27; Psalm 106:39; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 3:1–4, 9; Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 16:1–63; Ezekiel 23:1–49; Revelation 17:1, 2, 5