Hosea: A Love That Will Not Let Go

By Q D SMITH

The only prophet God asked to live his own sermon.
Hosea was commanded to marry a woman who would be unfaithful to him, raise children given names that publicly announced God's judgment, and then buy his own wife back after she abandoned him. It is the most personally costly prophetic assignment in Scripture, and it produced one of the most emotionally powerful pictures of God's love anywhere in the Bible.
In this volume of a twelve-part verse-by-verse journey through the Minor Prophets, you'll walk through the complete King James text of Hosea alongside: Israel's swift, brutal political collapse in the decades following Jeroboam IIA verse-by-verse exposition of Hosea's marriage, his children's names, and Israel's long cycle of unfaithfulness and restorationHosea 6:6, quoted twice by Jesus, and Hosea 11:1, quoted directly of Christ's return from EgyptHosea 13:14, transformed by Paul into a resurrection declaration in 1 Corinthians 15Hosea's rare double presence among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including two separate dedicated commentariesReflection questions to close the study
Plus a bonus section: The Book of the Twelve
For centuries, God's people copied these twelve prophets onto a single scroll and read them as one book. This bonus section steps back from Hosea to look at the whole scroll: Why the Twelve were copied as one scroll, with evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Talmud, and the New TestamentA summary of every book of the Twelve, with its date, kings, audience, and key verseCharts comparing Bible order with the order of history, the prophets to Israel, Judah, and the nations, the kings each prophet served under, and the length of each bookA map of the world of the TwelveThe Day of the LORD traced through all twelve booksChrist in the Twelve, and the New Testament's quotations of these booksTwenty-seven lesser-known facts, the author's own reflections, and the four hundred years between Malachi and Matthew
The same bonus section appears in every volume of the series, so whichever book you start with, you have the whole scroll in view.
Written for readers who want depth without academic jargon, this is for anyone building a serious, verse-by-verse walk through all twelve Minor Prophets, one book at a time.
Book 1 of 12 in The Minor Prophets Series: twelve verse-by-verse studies, one for each book of the Twelve, in Bible order.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLJ899R9
• ISBN13: 9798177973142
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"