Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 142 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Format: paperback
Published: August 1984

ISBN-10: 0-87784-290-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-87784-290-3
IVP Order Code: 290

Subjects

Commentaries--Old Testament

General Preface

Author's preface

Chief abbreviations

To the reader. . . .

Part One: a parable from life
A Distracted Family - Hosea 1-3
Introducing Hosea - 1:1
An ominous beginning - 1:2-9
A rift in the clouds - 1:10-2:1
The lovers and the Lover - 2:1-23
'Love . . . as the Lord loves' - 3:1-5

Part two: the parable spelt out
How can I give you up? - Hosea 4-14
A people without understanding - 4:1-19
The prospect darkens - 5:1-14
Let us press on to know the Lord - 5:15-7:2
Decadence - 7:3-16
Sowing the wind, reaping the whirlwind - 8:1-14
Wanderers among the nations - 9:1-17
'Time to seek the Lord' - 10:1-15
'How can I give you up?' - 11:1-11
Look back and learn! - 11:12-12:14
Additional Note on Hosea - 12:12
The unmaking of a kingdom - 13:1-16
The way home - 14:1-9

Addenda

Map: Assyria and the West

Map: The break-up of Israel

Chronological table

A bird's eye view of the book