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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Hosea (King living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
God told Hosea to marry Gomer, a woman who would be unfaithful, and his taking her back again and again became his book's picture of God with Israel. He prophesied to the north in the decades before it fell to Assyria. The same name, spelled Hoshea, belongs to four other men.
God told Hosea to marry Gomer, a woman who would be unfaithful, and his taking her back again and again became his book's picture of God with Israel. He prophesied to the north in the decades before it fell to Assyria. The same name, spelled Hoshea, belongs to four other men.
Hosea was a prophet to northern Israel whom God commanded to marry a promiscuous woman named Gomer as a living picture of Israel's unfaithfulness to God, and Hosea's repeated forgiveness and pursuit of Gomer even after she left him for other men became the book's central metaphor for God's relentless love toward an unfaithful people. He prophesied in the decades leading up to Israel's fall to Assyria, and his book is full of marriage and family imagery, naming his children symbolic names that doubled as warnings to the nation.
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- Numbers 13:8
- Numbers 13:16
- Deuteronomy 32:44
- 2 Kings 15:30
- 2 Kings 17:1
- 2 Kings 17:3
- 2 Kings 17:4
- 2 Kings 17:6
- 2 Kings 18:1
- 2 Kings 18:9
- 2 Kings 18:10
