Annotated Outline of Hosea

Hosea

1. Symbolic visions (Hos. 1:1-3:5)  (1:1-11)
   1. Title, author, and historical background (2 Ki. 15-20; 2 Chr. 26-32)  (1:1)
   2. Marriage: birth of Jezreel: meaning  (1:2-5)
   100. Birth of Lo-ruhamah: meaning  (1:6-7)
   4. Birth of Lo-ammi: meaning  (1:8-9)
   5. Future regathering of Israel  (1:10-11)
2. Chastening of Gomer: meaning the chastening on Israel  (2:1-23)
   1. Wooing of Gomer: meaning the regathering of Israel  (2:14-23)
3. Hosea's divine love for Gomer: buys her for "many days" for himself alone: meaning  (3:1-5)
   1. Afterward: Israel to be restored under the Messiah (Acts 15:13)  (3:5)
4. God's case against Israel (Hos. 4:1-5:15; cp. Isa. 1:2, refs.)  (4:1-19)
   1. Eight sins of Israel  (4:1-2)
   2. Eightfold judgment of Israel  (4:3-5)
   100. Eightfold moral and spiritual state: eightfold judgment (cp. Isa. 1:5, refs.)  (4:6-11)
   4. Sevenfold idolatry of Israel: fourfold judgment  (4:12-14)
   5. Warning to Judah  (4:15-19)
5. Call to Israel  (5:1-15)
   1. Sins of Israel and Judah  (5:3-15)
6. Prophetic repentance of Israel in the last days (Zech. 12:10-14; Rom. 11:25-29)  (6:1-11)
   1. God's case against Israel (Hos. 6:4-13:8; 4:1; cp. Isa. 1:2)  (6:4)
      1. Divine forbearance  (6:4)
   2. Threefold judgment of Israel  (6:5)
   100. Religious sins of Israel  (6:6-11)
7. Sins and civil strifes  (7:1-8:8)
   1. Trust in the nations  (7:8-11)
   2. Captivity to Assyria (2 Ki. 17)  (7:12-8:3)
   100. Idolatry of Israel  (8:4-6)
   4. Dispersion of Israel  (8:7-8)
8. Harlotry and idolatry  (8:9-9:17)
   1. Captivity to Egypt and Assyria (2 Ki. 17; 2 Chr. 36:1-4)  (9:2-7)
   2. Utter corruption of Israel (cp. Isa. 1:5, refs.)  (9:8-10)
   100. Complete dispersion  (9:11-17)
9. Israel's idolatry  (10:1-15)
   1. Complete overthrow (2 Ki. 17)  (10:2-8)
   2. Charge of sinfulness since the days of Gibeah (Judg. 19-20)  (10:9-11)
   100. Chance to avert judgment  (10:12)
   4. Refusal: judgment inevitable  (10:13-15)
10. Persistent rebellion (cp. Isa.1:2, refs.)  (11:1-11)
    1. God's forbearance  (11:8-11)
11. Sins of Israel  (11:12-13:16)
    1. God's mercy to Jacob when he repented  (12:2-5)
    2. Application to Israel  (12:6)
    100. Characteristics of Israel  (12:7-8)
    4. Israel yet to be converted  (12:9-10)
    5. Idolatry of Israel  (12:11)
    6. God's mercies to Jacob and Israel in their sojourn  (12:12-13)
    7. Israel now unappreciative  (12:14-13:2)
    8. Judgment of Israel  (13:3-8)
    1. Final restoration of Israel (Hos. 13:9-14:9, refs.)  (13:9-13)
       1. Cause of present judgments  (13:9-13)
    10. Redemption promised  (13:14)
    11. Complete desolation first  (13:15-16)
12. Invitation to return to God  (14:1-9)
    1. Future confession of Israel  (14:2-3)
    2. Fourteenfold restoration  (14:4-9)