Person
Hosea
son of Beeri
Prophet whose marriage imagery addresses Israel's unfaithfulness.
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Prophet of the northern kingdom in its last generation, commanded to marry , a woman of unfaithfulness, and to name their children , Lo-ruhamah, and Lo-ammi as living oracles against Israel. His own painful marriage becomes the central metaphor for Yahweh's covenant with a faithless people who chase after and foreign alliances. The book mingles searing indictments of Ephraim with tender appeals to return, promising healing, betrothal in faithfulness, and a renewed wilderness courtship.
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