The reading for Year of the Bible, Day 257, is Hosea 1-4: Hosea is the first of the “minor prophets,” so called because of the brevity of their prophecies. Written in the eighth-century BC over a thirty-year period, Hosea is the only prophet from the Northern Kingdom whose words appear in the Bible.
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