When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery against from Yahweh."
"Wife of whoredom ... children of whoredom ... the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah ..." The triple use of "whoredom" in this passage is instructive, because in the third instance it is defined as "departing from Jehovah."  What it certainly means in the last instance, therefore, it may very well mean the same in the first two instances, strongly supporting the conclusion of Haley: "The word in the first part of this verse may mean, as it certainly does in the last part, simply spiritual whoredom, or idolatry."[12]  This kind of "whoredom" is therefore very widespread even now.  As Morgan put it: