Hosea 1:2 meaning and explanation
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.”
Hosea 1:2, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Hosea 1:2 opens the prophet's ministry in the days of Jeroboam II of Israel. God tells Hosea to marry a woman described as a prostitute and to have children of adultery, because the land has prostituted itself by departing from the LORD.
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