It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Hosea 1:5 in context
Hosea 1:2–8
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When the LORD spoke at first by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking the LORD.”
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So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
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The LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.
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It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
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She conceived again, and bore a daughter.
Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
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But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
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Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
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