Book Introduction
Hosea
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— A prophet whose broken marriage became the most powerful picture of God's unfailing love for unfaithful Israel
Attributed to , who prophesied in the northern kingdom of during its final decades before the Assyrian conquest.
750s–720s BC
The northern kingdom of
To use the prophet's own marriage as a living parable of God's faithful love for His unfaithful people
What's It About?
God tells to marry , a woman who will be unfaithful — and to keep loving her even when she runs away. It's a shocking, heartbreaking assignment, but that's the point: Israel has been unfaithful to God in exactly the same way. Hosea's pain is God's pain. His relentless love is God's love. The book moves between judgment and tender pleading, but love always gets the last word.
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