hosea prophecies of

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hosea prophecies of - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Hosea, Prophecies of
  This book stands first in order among the "Minor Prophets." "The
  probable cause of the location of Hosea may be the thoroughly
  national character of his oracles, their length, their earnest
  tone, and vivid representations." This was the longest of the
  prophetic books written before the Captivity. Hosea prophesied
  in a dark and melancholy period of Israel's history, the period
  of Israel's decline and fall. Their sins had brought upon them
  great national disasters. "Their homicides and fornication,
  their perjury and theft, their idolatry and impiety, are
  censured and satirized with a faithful severity." He was a
  contemporary of Isaiah. The book may be divided into two parts,
  the first containing chapters 1-3, and symbolically representing
  the idolatry of Israel under imagery borrowed from the
  matrimonial relation. The figures of marriage and adultery are
  common in the Old Testament writings to represent the spiritual
  relations between Jehovah and the people of Israel. Here we see
  the apostasy of Israel and their punishment, with their future
  repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.
  
    The second part, containing 4-14, is a summary of Hosea's
  discourses, filled with denunciations, threatenings,
  exhortations, promises, and revelations of mercy.
  
    Quotations from Hosea are found in Matt. 2:15; 9:15; 12:7;
  Rom. 9:25, 26. There are, in addition, various allusions to it
  in other places (Luke 23:30; Rev. 6:16, comp. Hos. 10:8; Rom.
  9:25, 26; 1 Pet. 2:10, comp. Hos. 1:10, etc.).
  
    As regards the style of this writer, it has been said that
  "each verse forms a whole for itself, like one heavy toll in a
  funeral knell." "Inversions (7:8; 9:11, 13; 12: 8), anacolutha
  (9:6; 12:8, etc.), ellipses (9:4; 13:9, etc.), paranomasias, and
  plays upon words, are very characteristic of Hosea (8:7; 9:15;
  10:5; 11:5; 12:11)."