How many Kings of Judah were there during the time of Hosea's revelations from the Lord? - BIBLE QUIZ

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ANSWER: D

FOUR 

Kings of Judah, The Southern Kingdom

Uzziah	(737-735)	A good king
Jotham	(749-734)	A good king
Ahaz	(741-726)	Very wicked! Galilee captivity (734)
Hezekiah	(726-697)	A good king. Fall of Samaria (721)

Some of these dates overlap, and are confusing. The maximum period, thus, in which Hosea could have prophesied would be 790-697 BC. and the minimum period about 750-725 BC. Assuming that his ministry extended into some considerable part of the reigns of both Jeroboam and Hezakiah, it would be safe, perhaps, to place him at about 760-720 BC.

His unhappy domestic life with his unfaithful wife, Gomer, was not only a preparation for his ministry, but a parable to the nation of its spiritual adultery in forsaking Jehovah and resorting to the worship of false gods. Hosea is one of the most evangelical of the Old Testament. He shows clearly that God is love and that Israel's sin of sins was not to have recognized the love of God. Hosea was thus the St. John of the Old Testament. "Hosea was the home missionary of North Israel, as Jonah was their foreign."