Hosea 1:2 BSB — MannaFest

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.”

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A wife of whoredoms - That is, says Newcome, a wife from among the Israelites, who were remarkable for spiritual fornication, or idolatry. God calls himself the husband of Israel; and this chosen nation owed him the fidelity of a wife. See Exo 34:15; Deu 31:16; Jdg 2:17; Isa 54:5; Jer 3:14; Jer 31:32, Eze 16:17; Eze 23:5, Eze 23:27; Hosea 2, Hos 5:1-15; Rev 17:1, Rev 17:

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Gomer is called "a wife of whoredoms," anticipatively. children of whoredoms--The kingdom collectively is viewed as a mother; the individual subjects of it are spoken of as her children.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תְּחִלַּ֥ת	te.chi.Lat	[the] beginning	H8462 →
דִּבֶּר־	di.ber-	<of> [when] he spoke	H1696 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בְּהוֹשֵׁ֑עַ פ	be.ho.She.a'	by Hosea	H1954 →
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הוֹשֵׁ֗עַ	ho.She.a'	Hosea	H1954 →
לֵ֣ךְ	lekh	go	H1980 →
קַח־	kach-	take	H3947 →
לְךָ֞	le.Kha	for yourself
אֵ֤שֶׁת	'E.shet	a wife of	H802 →
זְנוּנִים֙	ze.nu.Nim	prostitution<s>	H2183 →
וְיַלְדֵ֣י	ve.yal.Dei	and children of	H3206 →
זְנוּנִ֔ים	ze.nu.Nim	prostitution<s>	H2183 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
זָנֹ֤ה	za.Noh	continually <prostitute itself>	H2181 →
תִזְנֶה֙	tiz.Neh	it prostitutes itself	H2181 →
הָאָ֔רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
מֵֽאַחֲרֵ֖י	me.'a.cha.Rei	from after	H310 →
יְהוָֽה׃	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Peter 2:14
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
leads to
- 2 Peter 2:3
  In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
- 2 Peter 2:18
  With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
- Ephesians 2:3
  All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- 2 Peter 3:16
  He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest…
Through
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will…
leads to
- Judges 10:6
  And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus…
- Judges 10:13
  But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.
- Judges 2:12
  Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down…
- Exodus 34:15
  Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.