Hosea 1:1. Title. The title which was prefixed to the whole Book is due to an editor or editors. The mention of the Jewish kings, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah only one of whom, Uzziah, can have been contemporary with Jeroboam II (c. 782- 743 B.C.) must be due to a post-exilic editor. An earlier heading can be detected in Hosea 1:2 a.

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