| God told Hosea to marry a prostitute, so that Hosea could
understand God's experience with Israel, which had prostituted itself to
other gods.
"[T]he Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord." So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son." Hosea 1:2-3 (Revised Standard Version) |
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