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Hosea - Book of Hosea Part 1

JustThoughtsstudiesPublished on Apr 16, 2013  - Just Thoughts The Minor Prophets - Hosea Part 1Chapter by Chapter Verse by Verse  Hosea saw the failure to acknowledge God (4:1,6; 8:2-3; 13:4) as Israel's basic problem. God's relation to Israel was that of love (2:19; 4:1; 6:6; 10:12; 12:6). The intimacy of the covenant relationship between God and Israel, illustrated in the first part of the book by the husband-wife relationship, is later amplified by the father-child relationship (11:1-4). Disloyalty to God was spiritual adultery (4:13-14; 5:4; 9:1; cf. Jer 3; see note on Ex 34:15). Israel had turned to Baal worship and had sacrificed at the pagan high places, which included associating with the sacred prostitutes at the sanctuaries (4:14) and worshiping the calf images at Samaria (8:5; 10:5-6; 13:2). There was also international intrigue (5:13; 7:8-11) and materialism. Yet despite God's condemnation and the harshness of language with which the unavoidable judgment was announced, the major purpose of the book is to proclaim God's compassion and covenant love that cannot - finally - let Israel go.

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          • • • Just Thoughts The Minor Prophets - Hosea Part 1 2013 - by JustThoughtsstudies

                • Superscription (1:1)

                • The Unfaithful Wife and the Faithful Husband (1:2;3:5)

                • The Children as Signs (1:2;2:1)

                • The Unfaithful Wife (2:2-23)

• • • • • • • • 1. The Lord's judgment of Israel (2:2-13)

                2. The Lord's restoration of Israel (2:14-23)

• • • • • • • • • The Faithful Husband (ch. 3)

                • The Unfaithful Nation and the Faithful God (chs. 4-14)

                • Israel's Unfaithfulness (4:1;6:3)

• • • • • • • • 1. The general charge (4:1-3)

                2. The cause declared and the results described (4:4-19)

                3. A special message to the people and leaders (ch. 5)

                4. The people's sorrowful plea (6:1-3)

• • • • • • • • • Israel's Punishment (6:4;10:15)

• • • • • • • • 1. The case stated (6:4;7:16)

                2. The judgment pronounced (chs. 8-9)

                3. Summary and appeal (ch. 10)

• • • • • • • • • The Lord's Faithful Love (chs. 11-14)

• • • • • • • • 1. The Lord's fatherly love (11:1-11)

                2. Israel's punishment for unfaithfulness (11:12;13:16)

                3. Israel's restoration after repentance (ch. 14)

• • • • • Hosea Part 2  Published on Apr 16, 2013 - Just Thoughts The Minor Prophets - Hosea Part 2

• • • • • • Just Thoughts The Minor Prophets - Hosea Part 3 2013

• • • • • • 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 unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

          • Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

• • • • • • • • Plead with your mother, plead : for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

              • Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born , and make her as awilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

• • • • • • • • Therefore will I return , and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

              • And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers , and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

Special Problems

The book of Hosea has at least two perplexing problems. The first concerns the nature of the story told in chs. 1 - 3 and the character of Gomer. While some interpreters have thought the story to be merely an allegory of the relation between God and Israel, others claim, more plausibly, that the story is to be taken literally. Among the latter, some insist that Gomer was faithful at first and later became unfaithful, others that she was unfaithful even before the marriage.

The second problem of the book is the relation of ch. 3 to ch. 1. Despite the fact that no children are mentioned in ch. 3, some interpreters claim that the two chapters are different accounts of the same episode. The traditional interpretation, however, is more likely, namely, that ch. 3 is a sequel to ch. 1 -- i.e., after Gomer proved unfaithful, Hosea was instructed to take her back.