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HOSEA @ a prophet SEE Book of Hosea

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HOSEA - H>@ - (salvation), son of Beeri, and first of the minor prophets. Probably the life, or rather the prophetic career, of Hosea extended from B.C. 784 to 723, a period of fifty-nine years. The prophecies of Hosea were delivered in the kingdom of Israel. Jeroboam II was on the throne, and Israel was at the height of its earthly splendor. Nothing is known of the prophet’s life excepting what may be gained from his book.

HOSEA, PROPHECIES OF - H>@ - This book consists of fourteen chapters. It is easy to recognize two great divisions in the book:

(1) ch. 1 to 3;

(2) ch. 4 to end. The subdivision of these several parts is a work of greater difficulty
The first division should probably be subdivided into three separate poems, each originating in a distinct aim, and each after its own fashion attempting to express the idolatry of Israel by imagery borrowed from the matrimonial relation. Attempts have been made to subdivide the second part of the book. These divisions are made either according to reigns of contemporary kings or according to the subject-matter of the poem. The prophecies were probably collected by Hosea himself toward the end of his career. Of his style Eichhorn says, "His discourse is like a garland woven of a multiplicity of flowers; images are woven upon images, metaphor strung upon metaphor. Like a bee he flies from one flower-bed to another, that he may suck his honey from the most varied pieces....Often he is prone to approach to allegory; often he sinks down in obscurity."

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Hosea @ salvation, the son of Beeri, and author of the book of prophecies bearing his name. He belonged to the kingdom of Israel. "His Israelitish origin is attested by the peculiar, rough, Aramaizing diction, pointing to the northern part of Palestine; by the intimate acquaintance he evinces with the localities of Ephraim (5:1; kjv@6:8-9; 12:12; 14:6, etc.); by passages like kjv@1:2, where the kingdom is styled 'the land', and kjv@7:5, where the Israelitish king is designated as 'our' king." The period of his ministry (extending to some sixty years) is indicated in the superscription kjv@Hosea:1:1-2). He is the only prophet of Israel who has left any written prophecy.

Hosea, Prophecies of @ This book stands first in order among the "Minor Prophets." "The probable cause of the location of Hosea may be the thoroughly national character of his oracles, their length, their earnest tone, and vivid representations." This was the longest of the prophetic books written before the Captivity. Hosea prophesied in a dark and melancholy period of Israel's history, the period of Israel's decline and fall. Their sins had brought upon them great national disasters. "Their homicides and fornication, their perjury and theft, their idolatry and impiety, are censured and satirized with a faithful severity." He was a contemporary of Isaiah. The book may be divided into two parts, the first containing chapters 1-3, and symbolically representing the idolatry of Israel under imagery borrowed from the matrimonial relation. The figures of marriage and adultery are common in the Old Testament writings to represent the spiritual relations between Jehovah and the people of Israel. Here we see the apostasy of Israel and their punishment, with their future repentance, forgiveness, and restoration. The second part, containing 4-14, is a summary of Hosea's discourses, filled with denunciations, threatenings, exhortations, promises, and revelations of mercy. Quotations from Hosea are found in kjv@Matthew:2:15 kjv@Matthew:9:15 kjv@Matthew:12:7 ; kjv@Romans:9:25-26. There are, in addition, various allusions to it in other places kjv@Luke:23:30; kjv@Revelation:6:16, comp. kjv@Hosea:10:8; kjv@Romans:9:25-26; kjv@1Peter:2:10, comp. kjv@Hosea:1:10, etc.). As regards the style of this writer, it has been said that "each verse forms a whole for itself, like one heavy toll in a funeral knell." "Inversions (7:8; kjv@9:11-13; 12: 8), anacolutha (9:6; 12:8, etc.), ellipses (9:4; 13:9, etc.), paranomasias, and plays upon words, are very characteristic of Hosea (8:7; kjv@9:15; 10:5; 11:5; 12:11)."

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HOSEA @ -(One of the minor prophets)
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H1954 <STRHEB>@ הושׁע hôshêa‛ ho-shay'-ah From H3467; deliverer; {Hoshea} the name of five Israelites: - {Hosea} {Hoshea} Oshea.

H3818 <STRHEB>@ לא עמּי lô' ‛ammîy lo am-mee' From H3808 and H5971 with pronominal {suffix} not my people; lo {Ammi} the symbolical name of a son of Hosea: - Lo-ammi.

H3819 <STRHEB>@ לא רחמה lô' rûchâmâh lo roo-khaw-maw' From H3808 and H7355; not pitied; lo {Ruchamah} the symbolical name of a son of Hosea: - Lo-ruhamah.