Hosea Intro - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

IntroAbout the Book of HoseaHosea was a prophet who lived in about 750 BC. He usually gave his messages to the people of Israel, the kingdom in the north. But some messages were for Judah's people, the kingdom in the south. If we want to understand this book, we need to understand God's covenant with the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Sinai was the place where God gave his laws to Moses. The good things and bad things that Hosea speaks about are part of this covenant. Hosea's job was to tell his people that there was danger. God wanted his people to obey the covenant. He wanted the Israelites to live in the right way. But they did not obey God's laws, so God needed to punish them.Hosea said that there would be death and disease in Israel. He also said that soldiers from another country would destroy their nation. They would take the Israelites away as their prisoners. After that, God would be able to do good things for Israel again.We know very little about Hosea and his family. God told him to marry a prostitute who would not be a faithful to him as his wife. That was a picture of the Israelites who were not faithful to God. Hosea wanted the people to turn back to God and to obey him. If they did that, they could know God in a true way.