Hosea 1:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.

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  • Isa 8:1-3 : 1 And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz; 2 And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

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  • Hos 1:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1 The word of the Lord which 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 The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.

  • Hos 1:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4 And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

    5 And in that day I will let the bow of Israel be broken in the valley of Jezreel.

    6 And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.

  • 8 Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.

  • Hos 3:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 And the Lord said to me, Give your love again to a woman who has a lover and is false to her husband, even as the Lord has love for the children of Israel, though they are turned to other gods and are lovers of grape-cakes.

    2 So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;

    3 And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.

  • Judg 11:1-2
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    72%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

    2 And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.

  • 3 And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,

  • 13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.

  • Jer 2:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.

  • 1 Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.

  • Gen 38:1-3
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    1 Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

    2 And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

    3 And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.

  • 23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

  • 1 Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

  • 6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

  • 1 They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

  • 13 And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.

  • 14 Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;

  • 30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

  • 3 And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

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    17 Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

    18 Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

  • 13 And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.

  • Hos 2:7-8
    2 verses
    66%

    7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

    8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

  • 15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 6 And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

  • 6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.

  • Hos 2:1-3
    3 verses
    66%

    1 Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

    2 Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

    3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

  • 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

  • 16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

  • 3 Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.

  • 15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

  • 27 And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.

  • 4 Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.

  • 1 When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.