In Hos, what is an outline of the book?
Here is a high-level outline of Hosea 1-3 1-3 Hoseas family as an allegory -1-2:1 Israels unfaithfulness –1:3-9 God will scatter, mercilessly, those who are not His people –1:10-2:1 God will gather, mercifully, those who are His people -2:2-13 Gods rebuke and judgment -2:14-3:5 God will draw her back and have mercy –2:14-2:23 God draws back the Israelites –3 Hosea buys his wife out of slavery For chapters 4-14, commentators divide Hosea in two different ways: 1 rebuke and multi-rebuke. 1 rebuke: Rainbow Study Bible, The New Bible Dictionary (1962), the New International Bible Dictionary (1987), the Believers Bible Commentary, Wycliffe Bible Dictionary. Here is a sample outline 4:1-6:3 Israels unfaithfulness 6:3-10:15 Gods Rebuke and Judgment 11-13 God mercy – 14 Return to God, who is full of mercy A major shortcoming of this approach, is that you have passages of Gods mercy in 5:15-6:3, 11:8-11, and Gods judgment in 11:12-13:16. 3 Rebuke: The Bible Knowledge Commentary : Old Testam
