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Hosea 1:6

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She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

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Verse 6. Without mercy. Lo Ruchamah. Challoner.—Some copies of Septuagint and Saint Paul read, “not beloved.” Romans 9:25. Samaria shall surely perish. After the death of Jeroboam II. the kingdom was all in confusion, and in sixty-two years time became extinct. It was afterwards blended with Juda.

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Lo-Ruhamah means “not loved”.

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