Weds

27-November

Hosea 1-2

Hosea 1: What did God command Hosea to do? What do Hosea’s children symbolize?

Hosea 2: Who is the mother God refers to?What did Israel continue to observe that God would cause to cease?

Journal Prompt: Consider Hosea 2:5-8.  How do you struggle today with giving the credit to other people rather than to God for the things that He has given you?

Answers:

Hosea 1:  God commanded Hosea to marry and adulterous wife, have a child with her and name him Jezreel.

1^st child: Jezreel, symbolized the promise to Jehu that his sons would sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation. After this Israel would be taken captive (2Ki. 10:30-31).

2 child – Lo-Ruhama – she symbolized God’s position against Israel – no mercy.

3 child: LoAmmi – he symbolized that God would separate Himself from Israel.

Hosea 2:  The ‘mother’ that God refers to is Israel – here portrayed as an adulterous wife. Israel was continuing to observe all of the appointed festival, but God would make sure they stopped.