Hosea study section
Hosea key people
Hosea, Gomer, and their symbolically named children enact God’s relationship with Israel.
Key figures
Hosea
The prophet whose marriage to an unfaithful wife dramatizes God’s love for wayward Israel
Gomer
Hosea’s wife, whose unfaithfulness and redemption picture Israel’s adultery and God’s grace
The children (Jezreel, Lo-ruhamah, Lo-ammi)
Hosea’s children, whose names (“Jezreel,” “No Mercy,” “Not My People”) signify God’s judgment, later reversed to mercy
The LORD
The faithful husband and father, wounded by His people’s sin yet unwilling to give them up
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