Hosea 1:1-2

Amplified Bible

Hosea’s Wife and Children

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel.

² When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to him, “Go, take for yourself a ^[a]wife of prostitution and have children of [her] prostitution; for the land commits great acts of prostitution by ^[b]not following the Lord.”