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 bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Loru-ha-mah: for I will have no mercy anymore upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.
7 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, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
8 Now when she had weaned Loru-ha-mah, she conceived, and bore a son.
9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for you 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 to them, You are not my people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.

“Son of the living God” is a Messianic title that refers back to this passage in Hosea, because it is through the efforts of Messiah ben Joseph that the House of Israel will return. Remember how the apostle Peter refers back to this passage. When Yeshua asks his disciples who the believed he was, Peter answered:

 

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