I. Biographical: Hosea’s Family (1:1-3:5)
II. Hosea's Parable (4:1-14:9)
I. Biographical: Hosea’s Family (1:1-3:5)
A. Introduction (1:1)
B. Command to Marray (1:2)
C. Birth of Children (1:3-9)
D. Covenant Renewal at Jezreel (1:10-11)
E. Legal Proceedings Against Wayward Wife
(2:1-13)
F. Covenant Relationship Reestablished
(2:14-23)
G. Command to Remarry (3:1-5)
II. Hosea's Parable (4:1-14:9)
A. Legal Proceedings Continued (4:1-19)
B. Adultery in High Places (5:1-14)
C. Appeal: Return and be Raised (5:15-6:3)
D. Transgressors of the Covenant (6:4-7:3)
E. Unfaithful Israel: Oven, Cake, Dough,
Dove, Bow (7:4-16)
F. Israel’s Hypocrisy (8:1-14)
G. Warnings: No Worship in a Foreign Land
(9:1-9)
H. Unfaithful Israel: Grapes, Vine, Calf,
Toddler (9:10-11:11)
I. Dependence on Alliances (11:12-12:1)
J. Further Indictment Based on Historical
Review (12:2-14)
K. Worship of “man-made gods” (13:1-8)
L. Rejecting the Only Hope they have
(13:9-16)
M. Closing Appeals (14:1-9)
Ryan C. Hanley, The Background and Purpose of Stripping the Adulteress in Hosea 2, JETS 60.1 (2017), 89-103.
G. K. Beale, The Use of Hosea 11:1 in Matthew 2:15: One More Time, JETS 55.4 (2012), 697-715.
Brian Fairchild, Hosea with Brian Fairchild.