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The prophet Hosea lived through the tumultuous final decades of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The Assyrian invasion culminated in the destruction of Samaria, the end of the Northern Kingdom, and the exile of many of its people. Hosea called the people to faith in God through warnings of judgment and promises of hope. He exposed the people’s infidelity as they turned to other nations, to their...

a matter of fact, became as Admah and Zeboiim. The final outcome was tragedy. (Macintosh 1997: 462) But that misses Hosea’s point. Samaria and Ephraim fell, as said right here at 11:11. But his people were not made like Admah and Zeboiim—at least not in the rhetorical-theological sense. The outcome of Admah and Zeboiim was not simply a tragedy; it was a complete ending. And this will not be the fate of YHWH’s people (so Redak; cf. Jer. 4:27; 5:10, 18; 30:11). Further, to say with Macintosh that the
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