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Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call her Lo-Ruhamah (which means “not loved”),( O) for I will no longer show love to Israel,( P) that I should at all forgive them.7 Yet I will show love to Judah; and I will save them—not by bow,( Q) sword or battle, or by horses and horsemen, but I, the Lord their God,( R) will save them.”
In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea ( / ˌhoʊˈziːə / or / hoʊˈzeɪə /; Hebrew: הוֹשֵׁעַ – Hōšēaʿ, 'Salvation'; Greek: Ὡσηέ – Hōsēé ), also known as Osee, [1] son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BCE prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the Book of Hosea.
This summary of the book of Hosea provides information about the title, author (s), date of writing, chronology, theme, theology, outline, a brief overview, and the chapters of the Book of Hosea.
Hosea 1. Hosea’s Wife and Children. 1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, a king of Israel. 2 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery ...
In Hosea 1:1, the prophet identified the kings that ruled during his prophetic ministry. The first four—Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah—reigned over the southern kingdom of Judah from 790 BC to 686 BC, while Jeroboam II ruled the northern kingdom of Israel from 782 BC to 753 BC.
Jun 18, 2004 · Hosea was a prophet who lived and prophesied just before the destruction of Israel in 722 BC. He preached to the northern kingdom. Throughout the book you will see that he refers to Israel and Ephraim. Ephraim was the largest tribe in Israel and sometimes the whole nation was referred to as Ephraim.
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Hosea was a prophet of God in the Bible. His book is the first of the twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. As a contemporary of the prophet Isaiah, Hosea ministered primarily to the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, during the reigns of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah of Judah, and Jeroboam II ...
Hosea lived in the northern kingdom of Israel about 200 years after it broke off from southern Judah ( 1 Kgs. 12 ). He was called to speak on God’s behalf to the people of Israel (who he also called “Ephraim” or “Jacob”) during the reign of one of Israel’s worst kings, Jeroboam II.
The Book of Hosea ( Biblical Hebrew: סֵפֶר הוֹשֵׁעַ, romanized: Sēfer Hōšēaʿ) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament. According to the traditional order of most Hebrew Bibles, it is the first of the ...
Hosea, a prophet from the Northern Kingdom, preached in his homeland, which he addresses as Israel, Jacob or, frequently, Ephraim. Hosea began his mission in a period of prosperity, the last years of Jeroboam II (783–743 B.C.).
