Cross references

Hosea 1:2

When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”

Hosea 1:2 BSB

Hosea 1:2 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hosea 2:4–5 (7 votes) and Hosea 3:1 (7 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Exodus 34 to Revelation 17.

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Which verses does Hosea 1:2 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery. For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

  2. Hosea 3:17 votes

    Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

  3. And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

  4. They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  5. Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

  6. Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

  7. Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

  8. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother, …

  9. Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

  10. Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

  11. Hosea 5:33 votes

Which verses point to Hosea 1:2?

The 10 strongest of 22.