Hosea 1
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Hosea 1:2-5

2When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord.”

3So he married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

4Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

5In that day I will break Israel’s bow in the Valley of Jezreel.”

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