1. This is God’s Message to Hosea son of Beeri. It came to him during the royal reigns of Judah’s kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. This was also the time that Jeroboam son of Joash was king over Israel.
2. The first time God spoke to Hosea he said:“Find a whore and marry her.Make this whore the mother of your children.And here’s why: This whole countryhas become a whorehouse, unfaithful to me, God.”
3. Hosea did it. He picked Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She got pregnant and gave him a son.
10-11. “But down the road the population of Israel is going to explode past counting, like sand on the ocean beaches. In the very place where they were once named Nobody, they will be named God’s Somebody. Everybody in Judah and everybody in Israel will be assembled as one people. They’ll choose a single leader. There’ll be no stopping them—a great day in Jezreel!”