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Hosea: God’s Reconciliation with His Estranged Household is unavailable, but you can change that!

Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament features today’s top Old Testament scholars and brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author...

the transition from Israel’s action to YHWH’s reaction. He determines to block Israel’s lust (2:8[6]) and cause Israel’s lovers to disappear (2:9[7]a–d) so that this wayward people become frustrated by idolatry’s futility and turn back toward YHWH (2:9[7]e–h). YHWH opposes Israel in its pursuit of idols: “Therefore I am blocking your road with thorns, I am hedging up her walls, so that her pathways she will not find” (2:8[6]).32 In this verse, the temporary
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