Josea Chapter 1

The Word of the Lord that came to Oseah, the son of Bery, in the days of Isaiah,

Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the sons of Joash,

King of Israel.

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take yourself a wife of Hortem and have children of Hortem, for the land commits great

hortem by forsaking the Lord. So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblam,

and she conceived and bore him a son. And the Lord said to him, call his name Jesrael,

for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jesrael,

and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel, and on that day I will break

the bow of Israel in the valley of Jesrael. She conceived again and bore a daughter, and the Lord

said to him, call her name no mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel to forgive

them at all. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord

their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war, or by horses, or by horsemen.

When she had wean no mercy, she conceived and bore a son, and the Lord said, call his name

not my people, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand at the sea, which cannot be

measured or numbered.

And in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people, it shall be said to them,

children of a living God, and the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head, and they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jesrael.

Josea Chapter 2

Israel's unfaithfulness punished

Say to your brothers

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