Hosea 3 - Introduction

EXAMINATION

CONSIDERATIONS

1.

Was Hosea's marriage actual or symbolic?

2.

Did God command Hosea to do something immoral in marrying a woman of harlotry?

3.

Why did God command Hosea to marry and live with such a woman?

ASSOCIATIONS

Associate the persons or events of column one with the correct person or event of column two.

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Jezreel

capital of Israel

Achor

Egypt

Ephraim

house of vanity

Gibeah

Israel's captors

Admah

near Jericho

Zeboiim

city of plain of Sodom

Lebanon

Hosea's wife

Gomer

Hosea's mother-in-law

Baal

hope

Diblaim

another name for Israel

Lo-ruhamah

city of plain of Sodom

Lo-ammi

city where great sin was done

Gilgal

name of idol

Beth-aven

Hosea's daughter

Assyria

Hosea's son

Memphis

Hosea's son

Samaria

famous for cedar trees

MEMORIZATIONS

. and I will have ________ upon her that had not obtained ________; and I will say to them that were _________ my people, Thou ________ my people; and they shall say, ________ art my God. Their ________ will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the ________ of whoredom is with them, and they _________ not Jehovah.
My people are ________ forlack of knowledge; because thou hast ________ knowledge, I will also ________ thee.

Sow to yourselves in ________, reap according to kindness; break up your ________ ground; for it is time to ________ Jehovah, till he come and rain _________ upon you.
When Israel was a __________, then I loved him, and called my son out of ________.
I will heal their ________, I will love them ________; for mine anger is turned away from him.

CONTEMPLATIONS

1.

What is the symbolic or typical significance of the names of Hosea's children.?

2.

Where, in the New Testament, are these names used as fulfillments of Messianic prophecies?

3.

What did Hosea's rescue of Gomer from the slave market symbolize in God's relationship to Israel?

4.

What was the religious condition of the nation in Hosea's day?

5.

How is Ephraim like a caked not turned?

6.

To what point had the people fallen in their living in Hosea's day? Describe it using Hosea's terms.

7.

Why is Hosea compared to the apostle John of the N.T.?

8.

Where is the phrase O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? quoted or paraphrased in the N.T.?

9.

Name 5 characterizations of Israel listed in Hosea's book (such as, silly dove).

10.

How near the end of Israel's existence did Hosea prophesy? What other prophets were his contemporaries?