2. When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way, my people have left me and become unfaithful.”
3. So Hosea married a woman named Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. After the birth of their first child, a son,
4. the Lord said to Hosea, “Name him ‘Jezreel’, because it will not be long before I punish the king of Israel for the murders that his ancestor Jehu committed at Jezreel. I am going to put an end to Jehu's dynasty.
5. And in the Valley of Jezreel I will at that time destroy Israel's military power.”
6. Gomer had a second child — this time it was a daughter. The Lord said to Hosea, “Name her ‘Unloved’, because I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.
7. But to the people of Judah I will show love. I, the Lord their God, will save them, but I will not do it by war — with swords or bows and arrows or with horses and horsemen.”