This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the prophet Hosea. One of the hallmarks of the early Hebrew prophets, the “conscience of Israel,” is that they appear to have ...

It is a war that must be won at all costs. The prophet Hosea teaches us that when spiritual degradation happens, then does moral and ethical. When moral and ethical degradation happens ...

One of these prophets may have been Hosea. The prophet Hosea might have been one of the earliest of the prophets to come from Biblical Israel's 10 northern tribes. In other words, he was a ...

I think my invitation lacks Hosea’s conviction because I worry that people don’t like to talk about sin and repentance; the words make them feel embarrassed and uncomfortable. The prophet’s deep ...

Hosea 1:2 The Inclusive Bible The prophet Hosea was called to give a wake-up call to his country. The people who were to receive his message had a sacred covenant relationship with God.

Hosea 1:1 Hosea delivered messages of God while the Israelites were divided into two kingdoms. This prophet lived in the northern kingdom of Israel and began prophesying sometime near 745 B.C ...

“To enter the text is to be warmed by an ancient flame.” Wiesel embarked upon a spirited discourse upon the strange prophet Hosea, whom God commanded to marry a prostitute. Why would God ...

One expects a book called “The Prophet’s Wife” — with a cover illustration of a lush, bucolic biblical setting — to be one more attempt at cashing in on the recent vogue of romantic ...

But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The Lord said to Hosea: ‘Go get yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom ...