Q 01/05

Hosea 11:1 says that when Israel was a child, God loved him and called his son out of where?

A) Midian

B) Egypt

C) Canaan

D) Haran

Answer · why

B) Egypt

Egypt here points back to the Exodus, yet the New Testament reapplies the line to the infant Jesus, whose family fled abroad to escape King Herod.

Q 02/05

Hosea 8:7 gave English a proverb about consequences: those who sow the wind shall reap what?

A) The east wind

B) The wildfire

C) The whirlwind

D) The flood

Answer · why

C) The whirlwind

The whirlwind stands for the ruin that Israel's idols and hired allies would bring back on the nation, and the phrase now titles several works of fict...

Q 03/05

In the Book of Hosea, what is the name of the unfaithful woman God tells the prophet to marry?

A) Gomer

B) Jezebel

C) Rahab

D) Delilah

Answer · why

A) Gomer

Gomer daughter of Diblaim has three children with symbolic names, and the prophet later buys her back, acting out God's refusal to give up on Israel.

Q 04/05

According to Hosea 4:6, God's people are destroyed for lack of what, which their priests have rejected?

A) Vision

B) Repentance

C) Faith

D) Knowledge

Answer · why

D) Knowledge

Knowledge here means knowing God and his law, and the verse turns the charge on the priests: because they threw it away, God says he will reject them ...

Q 05/05

According to Hosea 6:6, a verse Jesus quotes to his critics, God desires what rather than sacrifice?

A) Obedience

B) Mercy

C) Fasting

D) Silence

Answer · why

B) Mercy

Mercy outranks ritual in this verse, and Jesus quotes it twice in the Gospels, once when he is criticised for sharing a table with tax collectors.