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Hosea 1:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
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Role in This Section
This verse marks the weaning of Lo-ruhamah and the conception and birth of another son.
Read It With
- Hosea 1:2-9
Read Hosea 1:8 with 1:2-9. This verse marks the weaning of Lo-ruhamah and the conception and birth of another son. The complete unit establishes this movement: Hosea takes Gomer, and Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi embody warnings against Jehu's house and the northern kingdom while making real family members bear the rhetoric's cost.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Hosea 1:2-9. The surrounding verses supply the complete prophetic movement summarized here: Hosea takes Gomer, and Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi embody warnings against Jehu's house and the northern kingdom while making real family members bear the rhetoric's cost.
Read Hosea 1:2–9 together
Why these verses belong together: Marriage command, three births, and the names Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi form one escalating sign sequence.
Verse 2. 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Verse 3. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
Verse 4. 4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Verse 5. 5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Verse 6. 6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
Verse 7. 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Verse 8. 8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
Verse 9. 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.
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Biblical text
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