1 THE word of the LORD
that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of
aUzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by
Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a
awife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the
land hath committed great bwhoredom, departing from
the LORDa.
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2a for the land hath committed great
whoredom, departing from the LORD Hosea lived in the time
when Israel had forsaken their God and had sought after other gods. The were
an unfaithful people and to understand the feelings of the Lord, Hosea was
so commanded as he was that he might more understand that which the Lord was
to pronounce and effect upon Israel in their destructions and scatterings.
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