Hos 1:2 | CPDV | STEP | The beginning of the Lord’s conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord.”

Hosea 1:2

2 The beginning of the Lord’s conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord.” ^{▼▼1:2 A wife of fornications: That is, a wife that has been given to fornication. This was to represent the Lord’s proceedings with his people Israel, who, by spiritual fornication, were continually offending him.(Challoner)
,} ^{▼▼1:2 Children of fornications: So called from the character of their mother, if not also from their own wicked dispositions.(Challoner)}