Hosea 1:2 Cross References - NSB

² When Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, »Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.«

¹⁵ Otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. They would commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice. ¹⁶ »You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

¹⁶ Jehovah said to Moses: »You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

¹³ Instead, you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel. You, like Ahab’s family, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to chase after foreign gods as if they were prostitutes. You have killed your brothers, your father’s family. Your brothers were better than you.

²⁷ Those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

³⁹ They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.

² At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: »Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.« He did this and went around stripped and barefoot. ³ Jehovah said: »Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,

¹³ »My people have done two things wrong: (l) They have abandoned me, the fountain (source) of living waters. They have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Revelation 4:11)

¹ It is said: »If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again.« The land would become completely polluted. »You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me!« Says Jehovah. ² »Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness. ³ »Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed. ⁴ »‘Now you call to me. You say, ‘Father!’ »You have been my friend ever since I was young.

⁹ »Because she was not concerned about her prostitution. She polluted the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.

¹ Jehovah told me: »Go and buy a linen belt. Wear it on your hips for a while, but do not put it in any water.« ² So I bought a belt and put it on my hips. ³ Then Jehovah said: ⁴ »Take off the linen belt. Go to the Euphrates River and hide the belt in a crack between some large rocks.« ⁵ And that is what I did, just as Jehovah commanded. ⁶ Some time later Jehovah said: »Go back and get the linen belt.« ⁷ I went back and dug the belt out of the hiding place, but the cloth had rotted, and the linen belt was ruined. It was good for nothing. ⁸ Then Jehovah said: ⁹ »Jeremiah, I will use Babylon to destroy the pride of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. ¹⁰ »The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt. ¹¹ »This belt is tight around your waist, and that is how tightly I held onto the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. I wanted them to be my people. I wanted to make them famous, so that other nations would praise and honor me, but they refused to obey me.

¹ »Son of man, take a clay tablet and put it in front of you. Draw the city of Jerusalem on it. ² »Then lay siege to it. Erect siege works against it. Build a ramp up to it. Set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. ³ »Take an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Then turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. ⁴ »Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. ⁵ »I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for three hundred and ninety days you will bear the sin of the house of Israel.

⁹ »Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.

¹ The word of Jehovah came to me: ² »Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices. ³ »Say this, ‘The Lord Jehovah says this to Jerusalem: »Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴ »‘»On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. ⁵ »‘»No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. ⁶ »‘»When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ ⁷ »‘I made you numerous like plants of the field. You grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments. Your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.«’ ⁸ »‘Then I passed by you and saw that you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord Jehovah. ⁹ »‘Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. ¹⁰ »‘I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. ¹¹ »‘I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.’« ¹² »‘I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ »‘You were adorned with gold and silver. Your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. ¹⁴ »‘You became famous in every nation because of your beauty. Your beauty was perfect because I gave you my glory,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.« ¹⁵ »‘But you trusted your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by. ¹⁶ »‘You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur. ¹⁷ »‘You took your beautiful gold and silver jewelry that I had given you and made male idols for yourself. Then you committed adultery with them. ¹⁸ »‘You took off your embroidered clothes and covered the idols with them. You offered my olive oil and incense in their presence. ¹⁹ »‘You also offered them sweet and fragrant sacrifices. You gave flour, olive oil, and honey-all the food that I gave you to eat. This is what happened,’ declares the Lord Jehovah.« ²⁰ »‘You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? ²¹ »‘You slaughtered my children and presented them as burnt offerings to idols. ²² »‘During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood, when you were naked, squirming in your own blood.’« ²³ The Lord Jehovah said: »You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then ²⁴ by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. ²⁵ »You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day. ²⁶ »You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry. ²⁷ »Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you. They are also disgusted with your immoral actions. ²⁸ »The others did not satisfy you so you ran after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they did not satisfy you either. ²⁹ »You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they did not satisfy you either. ³⁰ »I, the Lord Jehovah am furious with you. You were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted. ³¹ »You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That is worse than being a prostitute! ³² »You are an unfaithful wife who would rather have sex with strangers than with your own husband. ³³ »Prostitutes accept money for having sex, but you bribe men from everywhere to have sex with you. ³⁴ »You are not like other prostitutes. Men do not ask you for sex. You offer to pay them! ³⁵ »Jerusalem, you prostitute, listen to the word of Jehovah. ³⁶ »You chased after lovers, then took off your clothes and had sex. You even worshiped disgusting idols and sacrificed your own children as offerings to them. ³⁷ »So I, the Lord Jehovah, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all of those lovers stare at your nakedness. ³⁸ »I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged. I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ »I will also give you into the hands of your lovers. They will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare. ⁴⁰ »They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. ⁴¹ »They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot. You will also no longer pay your lovers. ⁴² »I will calm my fury against you and my indignation will depart from you. I will be pacified and angry no more. ⁴³ ‘»You have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged me by all these things. I will therefore bring your conduct down on your own head,’ declares the Lord Jehovah. ‘That way you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations. ⁴⁴ ‘»Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you: »Like mother, like daughter.« ⁴⁵ ‘»You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ ‘»Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. ⁴⁷ ‘»Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. ⁴⁸ ‘»As I am alive,’ declares the Lord Jehovah, ‘Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ ‘»This was the guilt of your sister Sodom. She and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. ⁵⁰ ‘»They were arrogant and did disgusting things in front of me. So I did away with them when I saw this. ⁵¹ ‘»Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done many more disgusting things than they ever did. Because of all the disgusting things that you have done, you make your sisters look innocent. ⁵² ‘»You will have to suffer disgrace because you accused your sisters. Yet, your sins are more disgusting than theirs. They look like they are innocent compared to you. Be ashamed of yourself and suffer disgrace, because you have made your sisters look like they are innocent.’ ⁵³ ‘»I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and Samaria and her daughters. I will also restore your fortune along with theirs. ⁵⁴ ‘»You will have to suffer disgrace and be ashamed of everything you have done, including comforting them. ⁵⁵ ‘»When Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters return to what they once were, you and your daughters will return to what you once were. ⁵⁶ ‘»You did not mention your sister Sodom when you were arrogant. ⁵⁷ ‘»You did not mention her before your wickedness was revealed. Now the daughters of Aram and their neighbors despise you. The daughters of the Philistines also despise you. Those around you hate you. ⁵⁸ ‘»You must suffer because of all the crude and disgusting things you have done,’ declares Jehovah.« ⁵⁹ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘I will treat you the way you deserve, because you ignored your promises and broke the covenant. ⁶⁰ ‘»I will honor the covenant I made with you when you were young. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. ⁶¹ ‘»You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.’ ⁶² ‘»I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Jehovah. ⁶³ ‘»I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth.’ The Lord Jehovah has spoken.«

¹ Jehovah spoke his word to me again: ² »Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. ³ »They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. There their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled. ⁴ »Their names were Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah and Jerusalem is Oholibah. ⁵ »Oholah played the prostitute while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors. ⁶ »The Assyrians were clothed in purple, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses. ⁷ »She gave her acts of fornication to them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself. ⁸ »She did not forsake her acts of fornication from the time in Egypt. In her youth men had lain with her. They handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her. ⁹ »Therefore, I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. ¹⁰ »They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her. ¹¹ »Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she. Her prostitution was more than the fornication of her sister. ¹² »She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and officials, the ones near, magnificently dressed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men. ¹³ »I saw that she had defiled herself and that they both went the same way. ¹⁴ »So she increased her acts of fornication. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion (reddish-orange color), ¹⁵ girded with belts on their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, like the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. ¹⁶ »When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. ¹⁷ »The Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their acts of prostitution. When they had defiled her, she became disgusted with them. ¹⁸ »She uncovered her acts if prostitution and uncovered her nakedness. I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister. ¹⁹ »Yet she multiplied her acts of prostitution. She remembered the days of her youth, when she prostituted herself in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ »She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose genital organ is like the genital organ of horses. ²¹ »Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth. ²² »Therefore, O Oholibah, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated. I will bring them against you from every side: ²³ the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and officials all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses. ²⁴ ‘»They will come against you with weapons, chariots and wagons, and with a company of peoples. They will set themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will commit the judgment to them, and they will judge you according to their customs. ²⁵ ‘»I will set my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears. Your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters. The fire will consume your survivors. ²⁶ ‘»They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels. ²⁷ ‘»I will make your lewdness and your fornication brought from the land of Egypt to cease from you, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’ ²⁸ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated. ²⁹ »They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your acts of prostitution. ³⁰ »These things will be done to you because you have played the prostitute with the nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols. ³¹ »You have walked in the way of your sister. Therefore I will give her cup into your hand. ³² »The Lord Jehovah says this: ‘You will drink your sister's cup, which is deep and wide. You will be laughed at and held in derision; it contains much. ³³ ‘»You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. ³⁴ ‘»You will drink it and drain it. Then you will gnaw its fragments and tear your breasts. »I have spoken,« declares the Lord Jehovah.’ ³⁵ »Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, bear now the punishment of your lewdness and your acts of prostitution.’« ³⁶ Jehovah said to me: »Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. ³⁷ »For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire to them as food. ³⁸ »Again, they have done this to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and have profaned my Sabbaths. ³⁹ »For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary on the same day to profane it. Then they did within my house. ⁴⁰ »Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent. They came and you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments for them. ⁴¹ »You sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set my incense and my oil. ⁴² »The sound of a carefree multitude was with her. Drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort. And they put bracelets on the hands of the women and beautiful crowns on their heads. ⁴³ »Then I said concerning her who was worn out by adultery: »Will they now commit adultery with her when she is thus? ⁴⁴ »But they went into her as they would go into a prostitute. Thus they went into Oholah and into Oholibah, the lewd women. ⁴⁵ »But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ »The Lord Jehovah says: ‘Bring up a company against them and give them over to terror and plunder. ⁴⁷ ‘»The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ ’»Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land. All women will be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done. ⁴⁹ ‘»Your lewdness will be repaid upon you. You will bear the penalty of worshiping your idols. You will know that I am the Lord Jehovah!’«

⁴ »I will show no mercy to her children for they are children of fornication. ⁵ Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

¹ Jehovah said to me: »Go again and love a woman beloved by her friend. Love an adulteress, even as Jehovah loves the children of Israel. Though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins for feasts.«

³ »I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. O Ephraim, you have played the harlot and Israel is defiled.

¹ The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

¹⁴ They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

¹ One of the seven angels who had one of the seven bowls spoke to me. He said: »Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, ² »with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.«

⁵ A name was written on her forehead, a mystery, »Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.«