King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 12:12
“And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].”
Verse in context — Hosea 12
10
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
11
[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
13
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14
Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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