person
Hosea
הוֹשֵׁעַὩσηέ
Hosea was a prophet who ministered to the northern kingdom of Israel during the reigns of several kings, calling the people to repent and return to God.
- verses
- 3
- first named
- Hosea 1:1
- last named
- Hosea 1:9
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Hosea?
Hosea was one of the minor prophets in the Old Testament who prophesied to the northern kingdom of Israel during the 8th century BC. He is the author of the book that bears his name.
The opening verse of the book of Hosea (Hos.1.1) provides the historical context of his ministry, stating that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam II, king of Israel.
Hosea's prophetic ministry was characterized by his unique personal life, which served as a symbolic representation of God's relationship with Israel. In Hos.1.2, God commanded Hosea to marry a promiscuous woman named Gomer, who would be unfaithful to him. This marriage symbolized Israel's unfaithfulness to God and their spiritual adultery through idolatry.
Throughout the book, Hosea confronts Israel's sin, including their idolatry, social injustice, and political corruption. He calls the people to repent and return to God, emphasizing God's steadfast love and desire to restore His relationship with them.
In Rom.9.25, the Apostle Paul quotes from Hos.2.23, applying the prophet's words to the inclusion of the Gentiles in God's plan of salvation. This demonstrates the enduring significance of Hosea's message, which extends beyond the immediate context of Israel to the universal scope of God's love and redemption.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
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Father of
- Jezreelregistry, no verse
- Lo-ammiregistry, no verse
- Lo-ruhamahregistry, no verse
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Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 2 books. The name is written 4 times in them.
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Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
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