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When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, Go, take to you a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution; for the land does commit great prostitution, [departing] from Yahweh.
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Israel's Spiritual Adultery
All commentators agree that God's command to Hosea serves as a shocking and powerful metaphor. Israel's worship of idols and abandonment of God's law was not merely a mistake; it was spiritual adultery. This act of unfaithfulness was a deep betrayal of their covenant relationship with God, who viewed Himself as their spiritual husband.
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Hosea
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea or in Hosea - God first revealed Himself and His mysteries to the prophet’s soul by His secre…
19th Century
Anglican
The beginning of the word ...—More correctly, In the beginning when the Lord spoke to Hosea, the Lord said ...
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here shows what charge was given him at the beginning: namely, to declare open war with the Israelites, and to be, as it were, very ang…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For I have kept the ways of the Lord Not those which the Lord himself walks in, his ways of providence, or of grace; though th…
Israel was prosperous, yet Hosea boldly told them of their sins and foretold their destruction. People are not to be flattered in sinful ways becau…
