Hosea 4
Titles for Pericopes/Passages in Hosea:
Symbols of Sin and Judgment: The Prostitute and Her Children |
The Restoration of Israel |
Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute |
The Lord's Discipline Will Bring Israel Back |
Agricultural Fertility Withdrawn from Israel |
Future Repentance and Restoration of Israel |
New Covenant Relationship with Repentant Israel |
Agricultural Fertility Restored to the Repentant Nation |
An Illustration of God's Love for Idolatrous Israel |
The Lord's Covenant Lawsuit against the Nation Israel |
The Lord's Dispute against the Sinful Priesthood |
Judgment of Pagan Idolatry and Cultic Prostitution |
Warning to Judah: Do Not Join in Israel's Apostasy! |
The Shameful Sinners Will Be Brought to Shame |
Announcement of Sin and Judgment |
The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience |
The Prophet's Declaration of Judgment |
The Oppressors of the Helpless Will Be Oppressed |
The Curse of the Incurable Wound |
The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile |
Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God's Forgiveness |
Transitory Faithfulness and Imminent Judgment |
Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah |
If Israel Would Repent of Sin, God Would Relent of Judgment |
Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace |
Israel Lacks Discernment and Refuses to Repent |
Israel Turns to Assyria and Egypt for Help |
Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord |
God Will Raise Up the Assyrians to Attack Israel |
The Political and Cultic Sin of Israel |
The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile |
The Willful Donkey and the Wanton Harlot |
Sacrifices Ineffective without Moral Obedience |
Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel |
Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus |
No Escape for the Israelites This Time! |
Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations |
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times |
The Fertility Worshipers Will Become Infertile |
Israel is Guilty of Fertility Cult Worship |
The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings |
The Calf Idol and Idolaters of Samaria Will Be Exiled |
Failure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah |
Fertility Imagery: Plowing, Sowing, and Reaping |
Bethel Will Be Destroyed Like Beth Arbel |
Reversal of the Exodus: Return to Egypt and Exile in Assyria |
The Divine Dilemma: Judgment or Mercy? |
God Will Restore the Exiles to Israel |
God's Lawsuit against Israel: Breach of Covenant |
Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob |
The Lord Refutes Israel's False Claim of Innocence |
Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble |
Baal Worshipers and Calf Worshipers to be Destroyed |
Well-Fed Israel Will Be Fed to Wild Animals |
Israel's King Unable to Deliver the Nation |
Israel's Punishment Will Not Be Withheld Much Longer |
The Lord Will Not Relent from the Threatened Judgment |
The Capital of the Northern Empire Will Be Destroyed |
Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance |
Divine Promise to Relent from Judgment and to Restore Blessings |