--- title: "Book of Hosea: Summary & All 14 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/ description: "The Book of Hosea (also called Osee), a book of prophetic oracles in 14 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 14 chapters, and the full text free." --- Old Testament # The Book of Hosea The Book of Hosea is the thirty-third of the 46 books of the Old Testament: 14 chapters and 198 verses. The Douay-Rheims calls it Osee. [Start reading: Hosea 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/1/) Chapters 1–14: [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/1/) … [14](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/14/) ## About Hosea About Hosea · Prophetic oracles Hosea preached to the northern kingdom in its last prosperous decades, and his message came through his own broken marriage: commanded to love an unfaithful wife, he learned in his flesh what Israel's idolatry does to God. His book, the first of the twelve minor prophets, was written to name religious betrayal as adultery — and to reveal a God who, wronged beyond excuse, still refuses to give his people up. Its promise of mercy after ruin echoes throughout the New Testament. *Hosea in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | Old Testament — book 33 of 46, 33 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 14 | | Verses | 198, as Bless numbers them | | In the Douay-Rheims | Osee | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 14 chapters · 33 notes | | Catechism | 14 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 14 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [Hosea 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/1/) 11 verses By marrying a harlot, and by the names of his children, the prophet sets forth the crimes of Israel and their punishment. He foretells their redemption by Christ. 2. ### [Hosea 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/2/) 24 verses Israel is justly punished for leaving God. The abundance of grace in the church of Christ. 3. ### [Hosea 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/3/) 5 verses The prophet is commanded again to love an adulteress; to signify God's love to the synagogue. The wretched state of the Jews for a long time, till at last they shall be converted. 4. ### [Hosea 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/4/) 19 verses God's judgment against the sins of Israel: Juda is warned not to follow their example. 5. ### [Hosea 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/5/) 15 verses God's threats against the priests, the people, and princes of Israel, for their idolatry. 6. ### [Hosea 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/6/) 11 verses Affliction shall be a means to bring many to Christ, a complaint of the untowardness of the Jews. God loves mercy more than sacrifice. 7. ### [Hosea 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/7/) 16 verses The manifold sins of Israel, and of their kings, hinder the Lord from healing them. 8. ### [Hosea 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/8/) 14 verses The Israelites are threatened with destruction for their impiety and idolatry. 9. ### [Hosea 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/9/) 17 verses The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry. 10. ### [Hosea 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/10/) 15 verses After many benefits, great affliction shall fall upon the ten tribes, for their ingratitude to God. 11. ### [Hosea 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/11/) 12 verses God proceeds in threatening Israel for their ingratitude: yet he will not utterly destroy them. 12. ### [Hosea 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/12/) 14 verses Israel is reproved for sin. God's favours to them. 13. ### [Hosea 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/13/) 15 verses The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day redeem them. 14. ### [Hosea 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/14/) 10 verses Samaria shall be destroyed. An exhortation to repentance: God's favour through Christ to the penitent. Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries In the comments ## What the saints *said.* 1 quotation from 1 saint linked to passages of Hosea in Bless. Each names the work it comes from. [St. John Chrysostom](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-chrysostom/) · on [Hosea 4:6](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/4/#v6) On this theme > Ignorance of the Scriptures is a great cliff and a deep abyss. Homily on Genesis, 2, c. 388 Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, Hosea is read at the principal Mass on 3 days in the US calendar. The next 8 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Fri, Mar 5, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/05/) | Friday of the Third Week of Lent | First Reading | [Hosea 14:2-10](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/14/) | | [Sat, Mar 6, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/03/06/) | Saturday of the Third Week of Lent | First Reading | [Hosea 6:1-6](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/6/) | | [Fri, Jun 4, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/06/04/) computed | Most Sacred Heart of Jesus | First Reading | [Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/11/) | | [Fri, Mar 24, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/03/24/) computed | Friday of the Third Week of Lent | First Reading | [Hosea 14:2-10](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/14/) | | [Mon, Jul 10, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/10/) computed | Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Hosea 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/2/) | | [Tue, Jul 11, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/11/) computed | St. Benedict, Abbot | First Reading | [Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/8/) | | [Wed, Jul 12, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/12/) computed | Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/10/) | | [Thu, Jul 13, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/07/13/) computed | Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Hosea 11:1-4, 8e-9](https://blessbible.app/bible/hosea/11/) | Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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