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When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "^(g)Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for ^(h)the land commits flagrant harlotry, ^[a]forsaking the Lord ."

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and ⁽ⁱ⁾bore him a son.

And the Lord said to him, "Name him ^(j)Jezreel; for yet a little while, and ^(k)I will ^[b]punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed of Jezreel, and ^(l)I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

On that day I will ^(m)break the bow of Israel in the ⁽ⁿ⁾valley of Jezreel."