Hosea 1

Overview:

Ministering to Northern Israel Theme: God's unchanging love Key Scriptures: 11:1; 1:2; 6:6

Chapters 1-3: Hosea's Marraige to Gomer (she runs away, forsakes Hosea; just like Israel to God) Chapter 4-14: Hosea's Message to Israel

Purpose: To warn the Northern Israel of impending Assyrian exile and to call them to repentance.

Message: To show Israel that God marries and loves people who don't love Him.

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v.2

When the Lord began to speak through Hosea, the Lord said to him, "Go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord."