Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+004   Hosea 4 (ESV) 1 Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land; 2 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+003   Hosea 3 (ESV) 1 And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+002   Hosea 2 (ESV) 1 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” 2 “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; 3 lest I strip her […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Hosea+001   HOSEA INTRODUCTION The prophet Hosea spoke to the northern kingdom of Israel in the turbulent period of the 8th century BC. Following the death of Jeroboam II, Israel had six different kings in just over twenty years; four were assassinated and the last was forcibly removed from the throne. […]

Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Jude+001   JUDE INTRODUCTION Jesus had several brothers, two of whom were James and Jude. Much less is known about Jude than James (see James), but he was clearly a church leader, since he wrote to believers with authority in this letter that bears his name. It cannot be determined exactly […]