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1, 9 January 2003
Reading: all of Hosea and especially Hosea 1:1-9
Questions
1. Find out what you can about Hosea himself from his book.
3. How is this theme developed in other parts of the Bible, including the New
Testament?
4. Why do you think that Hosea precedes Amos in the order of books in the Hebrew
canon?
5. Hosea 1:1. (Optional for those without reference material). Find out the dates these
kings ruled.
6. Hosea 1:1-2. In these verses what do we learn about how God communicates with
individuals?
7. Compare the calls to prophethood of Amos (Amos 7:10-16), Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1-12
and Hosea.
8. Hosea 1:4- 9. How can we deduce that the second and third children of Gomer were
illegitimate?
The Message of Hosea: Love to the Loveless, Derek Kidner IVP, 1976, Leicester.
1. Hosea 1:10-11. To what 4 or 5 promises does ‘Yet’ point? See especially Genesis
22:17-18 and Isaiah 10:20-23.
2. List some information from the Bible about Jezreel. See 1 Samuel 29:1, 1 Kings
21:1, 2 Kings 9:24 etc.
3. Hosea 1:11. What evidence is there that the concept of the one nation was not dead
after the division of the kingdom after Solomon into two? 2 Chronicles 34:6-7 &9;
compare with 2 Chronicles 35:18-19. See also 1 Chronicles 9:3; and Ezra 8:35 for
after the Babylonian exile..
4. Hosea 2:1. Unravel this verse. See Acts 26:6-8; Galatians 3:6-9; Romans 4:9-25
and John 11:51-2. How did God include the Samaritans (John 4:21-3) and the
Gentiles?
5. Hosea 1:10-2:1. What spiritual principles do we learn from these few verses?
6.What promise or promises of God are particularly relevant to your life at the present
time?
3. What parallels can you find between this passage and the parable of the prodigal
son in Luke 15:11-32?
5. How did God make the Valley of Achor a Door of Hope for Israel? How can he do
this for us?
7. Comment on ‘that day’. What did it mean for Hosea and his time? What does it
mean for us now, and for the future?
8. Hosea 2:19-20. Examine each of the key words in these verses. What do we learn
from them about the nature of God?
10. What do these verses teach about covenant? What do they say to us? See Romans
9:23-26 and I Peter 2:9-10.
1. How does God sum up the situation of Hosea’s marriage, comparing it to his own
covenant relationship with the Israelites? How does Ephesians 5:32-33 relate to
Hosea 3:1?
2. Comment on ‘sacred raisin cakes’, ‘15 shekels of silver’, ‘homer’, ‘lekhed’ and
ephod’.
Note that the remaining chapters of Hosea (4-14) spell out the parable contained
in chapters 1-3.
Questions on 4:1-19
2. What sections of Israel were culpable? How can we apply these verses to the
present day?
5. What do we learn about the sin of land-grabbing? See also Micah 2:2 and Isaiah
5:8. What examples do we see today?
6. How did God use Assyria as his instrument of punishment? How did he act more
directly himself? Are there modern parallels?
8. How does Jesus apply Hosea 6:6? How does this verse relate to us? See 1
Corinthians 13.
Bible studies on the Minor Prophets, HOSEA No.6 & 7, 13 & 20 February 2003
Readings: Hosea 7:3-16 Decadence. Hosea 8:1-14 Sowing the wind, reaping the
whirlwind.
Questions on Hosea 7:3-7 Corruption at court
1. What should the royal anniversary have been like? See Psalm 72:1.
2. What striking simile does Hosea use here for the actuality?
3. What kind of men ruled Israel before its final fall and disappearance in 722 BC?
See 2 Kings 15:10, 14, 25 & 30. Consider the rulers of our times and pray for the
nations.
5. Hosea 7:9-10. What is the meaning of this simile? How can it be applied to the
church today? Read Judges 16:20.
6. Hosea 7:11-13. What is the meaning of this simile? How can it be applied to the
church today?
7. Hosea 7:14-16. What is the meaning of this simile? How can it be applied to the
church today? Read Psalm 78:57.
5. Read about Baal Peor in Numbers 25:1-3. What 2 kinds of impurity and
unfaithfulness are seen at Baal Peor and here in Israel? See also Psalm115:18.
6. Hosea 9:11-14. What natural disasters arise from the misuse of sex in any age?
9. What is God’s last word about the Jews? See Romans11:11-16 and 25-36.
14. Hosea 10:11. See Hebrews 5:8 & 12:6. Jeremiah 4:3.
15. Israel reacted badly to discipline. What was the result? See Mathew 13:1-9.
6. Give a brief definition of the word ‘holy’ a. in regard to God b. in regard to man.
10. Read Genesis 32:22-32. What does the name Israel mean? What evidence is there
in Hosea 12:3-6 of God’s part in the re-making of Jacob? What was now required of
the people of the northern kingdom of Israel?
13. Hosea 12:14. What special danger faces a once-enlightened nation, church or
individual? Matthew 4:4 and John 3:21.
Bible studies on the Minor Prophets, HOSEA No. 10, 13 March 2003
Readings: Hosea 13:1-14:9
Questions on Hosea 13:1-15 The making of a kingdom
2. How does the breaking of the first commandment lead on to the breaking of the
second? Exodus 20:2-6.
4. Optional! Which hymn writer wrote “The dearest idol I have known
Help me to tear it from my heart and worship only you”?
10. Hosea 4:5-7. “Like” is used 8 times. What do the metaphors in these verses teach
us?