Hosea 1:1. Title. The title which was prefixed to the whole Book is due to an editor or editors. The mention of the Jewish kings, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah only one of whom, Uzziah, can have been contemporary with Jeroboam II (c. 782- 743 B.C.) must be due to a post-exilic editor. An earlier heading can be detected in Hosea 1:2 a.
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Hosea 1:1
1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.