Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons
1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9. The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them.
Hosea 1:1 to Hosea 2:1. The future material and religious prosperity of the people.
1. A general heading, perhaps the work of a late Judæan editor. Hosea 1-3 probably belong to the time of Jeroboam II; but it is extremely improbable that any of the prophecies belong to so late a date as the days of Hezekiah, when the punishment foretold at the hands of Tiglath-pileser (Pul) had already been partially fulfilled on Israel (2 Kings 15:29). That Hosea wrote the book is clear from Hosea 3:1.