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.”

Cross References (21)

  • Hosea 2:4–5 (7)

    I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.

  • Hosea 3:1 (7)

    Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love he

  • Deuteronomy 31:16 (6)

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselv

  • Psalms 106:39 (5)

    They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  • Ezekiel 23:1–49 (4)

    Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Exodus 34:15–16 (4)

    Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice

  • Jeremiah 3:9 (4)

    Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

  • 2 Peter 2:14 (4)

    Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed ch

  • Ezekiel 6:9 (4)

    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by

  • Revelation 17:1–2 (4)

    Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the grea

  • Revelation 17:5 (4)

    And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS

  • Ezekiel 4:1–5 (3)

    “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

  • Ezekiel 16:1–63 (3)

    Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Hosea 5:3 (3)

    I know all about Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me. For now, O Ephraim, you have turned to prostitution; Israel

  • Jeremiah 13:1–11 (3)

    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it

  • Jeremiah 2:13 (2)

    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their ow

  • Isaiah 20:2–3 (2)

    the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandal

  • 2 Chronicles 21:13 (2)

    but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute t

  • Jeremiah 3:1–4 (2)

    “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be com

  • Psalms 73:27 (2)

    Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

  • Mark 1:1 (1)

    This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.