Author: Myron

Hosea 4:1-14.  As I said at the beginning of Hosea, Hosea’s life has been shown to us as a sort of living parable.  God instructed him to take a wife, give her children certain names as they were born, and deal with her unfaithfulness in specific ways as a lesson for the people of Israel.  Read more

Hosea 3:1-5.  Today’s reading completes the story and explanation of the “living parable” of Hosea’s life.  We have seen that Hosea was commanded to marry a “cheating kind” of woman.  He had at least one child with her and she had two others.  All three were named by Hosea and lived in his house but Read more