Hosea's Marriage and Three Children

God commanded the prophet Hosea to marry Gomer, an unfaithful woman, as a sign of Israel's unfaithfulness to God. Gomer bore Hosea three children, and God gave each child a prophetic name: the firstborn Jezreel, foretelling that God would call the house of Jehu to account for the bloodshed at Jezreel; the daughter Lo-Ruhamah, meaning not shown mercy, showing that God would no longer show mercy to the house of Israel; and the youngest Lo-Ammi, meaning not my people, declaring that Israel would be temporarily rejected by God. Yet after the announcement of judgment, God also left a promise of restoration, saying that the Israelites would become as numerous as the sand of the sea and would again be called children of the living God.

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