Bible and Culture 2014 - Hosea day 4

HOSEA (Day 4)

hesed = steadfast love, loving-kindness, mercy,

love, loyalty

Places in Hosea

Gilgal – possibly in the Jordan valley near Jericho

Beth-Aven House of wickedness

Bethel House of God

Do not enter into Gilgal,or go up to Beth-Aven,and do not swear, ‘As YHWH lives.’

Hosea 4:15

Mizpah– in Gilead or Benjamin

Tabor= mountain in Jezreel area

Both locations of slaughter of rebels?

Shittim

Gibeah – border area of Benjamin

Ramah – border area of Benjamin

Beth-Aven (Bethel)

Syro-Ephraimitic War

Adam = place on the Jordan

south of Jericho?

Gilead = Ramoth-Gilead

Shechem

Memphis = major city in Egypt

Gibeah

Baal-Peor = in Moab; scene of idolatry in wilderness

Gilgal

Beth-arbel

Admah and Zeboiim

Bethel

Gilead

Gilgal

Aram = Syria