Hosea

Hoshea

Hosea ben Beeri (a prophet of the northern kingdom) · c. 750-725 BC, spanning the reign of Jeroboam II through the years before Samaria's fall · Kingdom of Israel (exact location uncertain) (Israel) · scripture

Hosea depicts Israel's political and religious alliances as marital infidelity against Yahweh, using his own troubled marriage as an enacted allegory to warn that the northern kingdom's covenant breach will bring conquest.