The reference to Israel/Ephraim recalls Hosea and especially the moving statement of God's internal conflict between justice and mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theolog] Reference

Amos the herdman and Hosea his contemporary follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference

Hosea: in all experience he finds something typical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Hosea, Amos, the two Isaiahs probably arrived at their.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge] Reference

But Hosea loved Gomer most devotedly and he married her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea, too, had changed much during the past four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea may be more tender, Isaiah more serenely majestic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Hosea, however, did not look for an insurrection in Samaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea entered quietly, and walked up to the children's bed room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Jeroboam II, we go not to the book of Kings but to Amos and Hosea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Hosea to test him and inspire him in his further work as a prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

These conditions were clear as the light of day, especially to Hosea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea did not want to cause her the pain of a recital of her sorrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

We find that the third child born to Hosea is called Lo-ammi, meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

And that night, Hosea and Gomer parted, Gomer going home to her father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

And so Hosea drew a beautiful picture of that future day in these words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea had the children removed to the home of a friend for several months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

MATURIN MURRAY BALLOU (1820-1895), son of the first Hosea, was a pioneer in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Then and there Hosea realized that there was a purpose in his home tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

That afternoon, his father, Hosea, had returned from Bethel all out of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

The prophet Hosea speaks of this place, battle, and time, all by this one word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

After a few years, however, everything seemed to go wrong in the Hosea household.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

"Grey hairs are upon him," says Hosea, vii. 9, not of a man but of the nation; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Hosea went a step further and decried the act of sacrificing as an act of idolatry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea approached her, stepped to her side and spoke her name in a low voice: "Gomer!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

After that Hosea followed up his rebuke and denunciation with most pathetic entreaties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

This was the same kind of an argument as the citizens in Samaria gave to Amos and Hosea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea discovered that even here the king and his advisers were double-dealing with Assyria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Although Hosea saw that he was laboring to no good effect, he did not for an instant give up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea laid him in his bed, covered him, kissed him and, with bowed head, went to his own room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

Hosea reads the experiences of his wedded life as a symbol of Jehovah's experience with Israel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference

Just how he got there Hosea did not know, but suddenly he found himself in front of his own home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference

The experiences that led the Samarian, Hosea, to prophesy were different than those of the Tekoan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference