1. 1:2-9 —Did Hosea really take a wife of fornication?

2. + Must you go and take a wife from among the uncircumcised Phi·lisʹtines?”

3. * If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, what good shall my life do me, Gen.

4. [Jehovah] will send his angel ahead of you, and you will certainly take a wife for my son from there.”

5. (Genesis 24:7) Hence, Abraham said to Eliezer: “Go to my country and to my relatives, and you will certainly take a wife for my son, for Isaac.”—Genesis 24:4.

6. (Exodus 34:11-16) Hence, the parents objected: “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers and among all my people a woman, so that you are going to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?”