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God said concerning Israel, “I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing” (Hos. 8:12). This statement is both a condemnation of the people and an expression of the need for the messages of such prophets as Hosea. The same criticism might be offered, in an accommodative way, concerning our understanding of the words of the Minor Prophets. For years,...

make the seed of Abraham into a great nation and give them the land of Canaan. The Mosaic covenant specified the terms under which the nation would be accepted by God. It specified blessings of prosperity if the nation was faithful to the laws God gave them, and it specified the curses that He would send on them if they were unfaithful and disobedient (Lev. 26; Deut. 28). Those curses included the stipulation that prolonged unfaithfulness might result in their rejection by God and the loss of the
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