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The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Malachi, 2 vols. (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary focuses on the books of Hosea through Malachi, focusing on their contents in light of the Minor Prophets as a whole. Over the last thirty years, biblical scholars have explored the implications of an ancient Jewish and Christian tradition that referred to the Minor Prophets as “the Twelve.” Scholarly work on the Book of the Twelve in the last quarter century has focused on...

of 1:1 and that whoever incorporated the unit also incorporated its introduction. Hosea 1:2b begins the first of four YHWH speeches (1:2, 4, 6, 9) where the narrator explicitly indicates that YHWH speaks to the prophet. [The Narrative Framework of Hosea 1:2–9] This first speech commissions the prophet to do something shocking: create a family with a prostitute. The law condemned the practice of harlotry as abhorrent to YHWH (Lev 19:29; 21:7–14 [for priests]; 21:9, 14; Deut 22:21; 23:17–18). Legal
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