Hosea 8
1. Why is a trumpet used in verse 1? Answer
2. What is referenced in verses 4 to 6? Answer
3. What does it mean that Ephraim had lovers (verse 9)? Answer
Hosea 9
4. What does verse 1 mean? Answer
5. Where is Memphis located (verse 6)? Answer
6. What is verse 9 referencing? Answer
7. What is Hosea asking for in verse 14? Answer
8. What New Testament event is alluded to in verse 14? Answer
9. What is the significance of Gilgal is regard to Israel's wickedness? Answer
Hosea 10
10. What does verse 3 mean? Answer
11. What is verse 5 referencing? Answer
12. Where is verse 8 referenced in the New Testament? Answer
13. What is the point being made in verse 13? Answer
Hosea 11
14. What is verse 1's relationship to the birth of Jesus Christ? Answer
15. What is prophetic about verse 5? Answer
16. What happened to Admah and Zeboiim (verse 8)? Answer
Hosea 12
17. What events are verses 3 and 4 referencing? Answer
18. Where, in prophecy, is believing that being prosperous reflects one's spiritual state (verse 8)? Answer
Hosea 13
19. What is verse 4 asserting? Answer
20. When did verse 11 occur? Answer
21. Where is verse 14 referenced in Apostle Paul's writings? Answer
22. What was prophesied to be the harsh reality of Samaria falling to the Assyrians (verse 16)? Answer
Hosea 14
23. What is encouraging about Hosea 14? Answer
24. Where is verse 2 referenced in the writings of the Apostle Paul? Answer
Hosea 8 Answers
1. Trumpets were used to sound an alarm and warn the people to prepare for battle. In the case of Israel, Assyria was readying itself to attack and conquer God's people.
[Role of Music in Bible Prophecy!]
2. Hosea 8:4 - 6 references the fact that the Kingdom of Israel, rejecting God's guidance, set up its own kings, princes and other rulers. It was also under Israel's first king, Jeroboam, that idols were set up in Bethel and Dan in order to lead the people away from worshipping the true God (1Kings 12:27 - 30).
3. Hosea 8:9 is related to verse 11 of chapter 7. Israel, several times, sought help from Assyria and not from God. Sadly, and ironically, it would be Assyria who would attack the nation and ultimately take its people into captivity.
Hosea 9 Answers
4. Hosea 9:1 is referring to Israel thanking its pagan gods like Baal for it harvests instead of the Lord.
5. The Biblical word Memphis is another named for the ancient Egyptian capital of Noph. It is located about 20 miles south of modern Cairo.
6. Hosea 9:9 is likely referencing the brutal rape and murder of a Levite's concubine by several bisexual men.
And, behold, the men of the city, certain perverted men, set upon the house all around and beat at the door and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man that came to your house so that we may have sex with him." (Judges 19:22, HBFV).
Although the men first sought to have sex with the Levite, they settled for brutalizing and gang raping his concubine until she died of her injuries (Judges 19).
7. Hosea, given the calamities to come upon Israel due to its sins, asks God to cause the women to be barren in order to spare the people further suffering.
[Who Was Healed of Being Barren?]
8. Hosea 9:14 alludes to the statement Jesus will make to weeping women as he is led to the place where he will be crucified.
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck (Luke 23:29).
When the magnitude of calamities come and the sufferings are terrible it becomes a curse to be a mother instead of a blessing.
9. Hosea 9:15 references Gilgal as it was in the city where a united Israel rejected God as their King and demanded the prophet Samuel make them a human leader (1Samuel 8, 11).
Hosea 10 Answers
10. Israel's impending punishment at the hands of the Assyrians will lead to the removal of their king. This act will cause the people to reflect on what they did to deserve this correction. When the penalties for their disobedience finally comes to them even a king would be unable to help them.
11. Hosea 10:5 is actually referring to the city of Bethel where idols were set up by King Jeroboam in order to keep the people under his control (1Kings 12:27 - 30).
12. Hosea 10:8 is referenced in Luke 23:30. Jesus, during his journey to the place where he will be crucified, stops and states the following to women who are weeping at his suffering.
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children . . . Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us (Luke 23:28, 30).
13. Hosea 10:13 is making the point that Israel's problems are squarely centered on trusting themselves and their own strength instead of God.
Hosea 11 Answers
14. Hosea 11:1 is quoted as a prophecy in Matthew 2:15 that was fulfilled when Jesus and his family returned to Israel after the death of Herod the Great.
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son (Matthew 2:15).
15. Hosea 11:5 predicts that Israel will be dominated and ruled over by the Assyrians. This prophecy came partly to pass in 734 B.C. when King Tiglath-Pileser III conquers Israel's territory east of the Jordan River as well as the land populated by the tribe of Naphtali (1Chronicles 5:26, 2Kings 15:29). The complete conquering of God's people was achieved in 723.
16. Admah and Zeboiim (Hosea 11:8) were two of the surrounding cities destroyed when Sodom and Gomorrah received fire and brimstone from heaven (Genesis 19, Jude 1:7).
Hosea 12 Answers
17. Hosea 12:3 references the birth of Esau and Jacob. When the twin boys were born Esau came out first with Jacob right behind him clutching his heel (Genesis 25:25 - 26).
Hosea 12:4 refers to the time when Jacob wrestled with a "man" all night who not only blessed him but renamed him Israel (Genesis 32:24 - 30).
18. The church at Laodicea, given a spiritual evaluation by Jesus Christ, felt that its riches were evidence that it was spiritually healthy and pleasing God. The belief in such a deception was a major stumbling block for Israel.
[Location of Revelation's Seven Churches]
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked (Revelation 3:17).
Hosea 13 Answers
19. Hosea 13:4 asserts that the God of the Bible is the only Deity worthy of worship and the only one who can save humans. All other believed deities and religious belief systems will someday be rejected as being invalid.
20. God first set up Saul as Israel's human king but then removed him due to his rebellion and sin (1Samuel 15:22 - 23, 16:1).
[Israel's and Judah's Kings Timeline]
Hosea 13:11 can also be seen as a prophecy. Jeroboam was set up as Israel's (northern ten tribes) first ruler after the kingdom split in two (1Kings 12). The sins promoted by him and those who would follow, however, will ultimately lead to the last ruler, King Hoshea, being removed from the throne by Assyria in 723 B.C.
21. Hosea 13:14 is loosely referenced in 1Corinthians 15:55.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (1Corinthians 15:55).
22. The Assyrian Empire practiced a unique form of brutality and violence even when compared to accepted standards of the time.
"Assyria was a ruthless enemy that practiced brutality on men, women, and children. Their armies destroyed and looted; they buried their enemies alive and even skinned them alive; they impaled people on sharp poles and left them to burn in the sun." (Wiersbe Expository Outlines).
As Hosea 13:16 states, the Assyrians also carried out the atrocities of not only killing babies but also ripping open and killing pregnant women.
Hosea 14 Answers
23. God encourages his people to repent and turn to him. If they do so they will be forgiven and mercy extended to them.
The Lord also promises to cleanse the hearts of his people and to generously bless them which will enable them to grow.
24. Hosea 14:2 is referenced in Hebrews 13:15.
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name (Hebrews 13:15).