--- title: "Hosea 1 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Hosea 1 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jerob" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/hosea/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/hosea/1)[ Commentary](/study/hosea/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/hosea/1) Audio 1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, *and* Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, *departing* from the LORD. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. 4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little *while*, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.* 5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6 ¶ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And *God* said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.*** 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9 Then said *God*, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye *are* not my people, and I will not be your *God*.* 10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, *that* in the place where it was said unto them, Ye *are* not my people, *there* it shall be said unto them, *Ye are* the sons of the living God.* 11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great *shall be* the day of Jezreel. [Daniel 12](/study/daniel/12) [Hosea 2](/study/hosea/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 Verse [Hosea 1:1](/kjv/hosea/1/1). ***Hosea, the son of Beeri*** — See the preceding account of this prophet. ***In the days of Uzziah, c.*** — If we suppose, says Bp. *Newcome*, that Hosea prophesied during the course of *sixty-six* years, and place him from the year 790 before Christ to the year 724, he will have exercised his office *eight* years in the reign of *Jeroboam* the second, *thirty-three* years in the reign of *Uzziah*, the whole reigns of *Jotham* and *Ahaz*, and *three* years in the reign of *Hezekiah* but will not have survived the taking of Samaria. But see the preceding account of this prophet. I think the *first* verse to be a *title* to this book added by the compiler of his prophecies, and that it relates more to facts which took place in *those reigns*, and had been *predicted* by Hosea, who would only be said to have prophesied under an those kings, *by* *his predictions*, which were consecutively fulfilled under them. By those, though dead, he continued to speak. 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