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| | Hsa 1:1 | The word of the LORD that came to Hose'a the son of Be-e'ri, in the days of Uzzi'ah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezeki'ah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel.
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| | Hsa 1:2 | When the LORD first spoke through Hose'a, the LORD said to Hose'a, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the LORD."
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| | Hsa 1:3 | So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Dibla'im, and she conceived and bore him a son.
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| | Hsa 1:4 | And the LORD said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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| | Hsa 1:5 | And on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel."
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| | Hsa 1:6 | She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.
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| | Hsa 1:7 | But I will have pity on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the LORD their God; I will not deliver them by bow, nor by sword, nor by war, nor by horses, nor by horsemen."
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| | Hsa 1:8 | When she had weaned Not pitied, she conceived and bore a son.
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| | Hsa 1:9 | And the LORD said, "Call his name Not my people, for you are not my people and I am not your God."
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| | Hsa 1:10 | Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered; and in the place where it was said to them, "You are not my people," it shall be said to them, "Sons of the living God."
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| | Hsa 1:11 | And the people of Judah and the people 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 Jezreel.
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