SUMMARY
Hosea’s family life serves as a symbol of God’s relationship with an unfaithful people.
ANALYSIS
HoseaProphet to the northern kingdom who married a prostitute to show God's relationship to a faithless Israel. More marries Gomer, an unfaithful woman, to symbolize that God is in a marriage-like relationship with the people, who are unfaithful to God. Hosea gives Gomer’s three children names to symbolize God’s judgment of the people, but Hosea later changes the names and their meanings to promise hope.
