them, ‘The land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the LORD’ (1:2). Now, in this chapter, we shall see some of the ways in which Israel had gone away from the Lord, and what he was going to do as a consequence of their unfaithfulness to the covenant that he had made with them. This section of Hosea’s prophecy can be seen at three levels. It is all about the faithful one and the adulterer. At the first level Hosea is the faithful husband and Gomer is the adulterous wife. At the second
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