scripture for a broken heart
the book of the prophet hosea. hosea livedin the northern kingdom of israel which he sometimes calls ephram or jacobabout two hundred years after they had broken off from southern judah. rememberthe story from 1 kings. hosea was called to speak on godâ´s behalf duringthe reign of one of israel's worst kings jeroboam the second. the nation wasdescending into chaos, and in the year 722 the big bad assyrian empire swoopedin, and decimated israel. again, see the story in 2nd kings and hosea had seenall of this coming. the book is a collection of sometwenty-five years of his preaching and writing it's almost all poetry and thiswhole collection has been designed to have three main sections. lets just dive in you'll see how it works.the opening part tells the story of hoseaâ´s broken marriage to a woman namedgomer, who commits adultery. now it's not totally clear whether gomer slept aroundwith other men before or only after they got married, but they did have threechildre