<P> Brad E. Kelle has referred to' many scholars' finding references to cultic sexual practices in the worship of Baal, in Hosea 2, to be evidence of an historical situation in which Israelites were either giving up Yahweh worship for Baal, or blending the two . Hosea's references to sexual acts being metaphors for Israelite' apostasy' . </P> <P> Hosea 13: 1--3 describes how the Israelites are abandoning Yahweh for the worship of Baal, and accuses them of making or using molten images for' idol' worship . Chief among these being the image of the bull at the northern shrine of Bethel, which by the time of Hosea was being worshipped as an image of Baal . </P> <P> Hosea is believed to be the first prophet to use marriage as a metaphor of the covenant between God and Israel, and he influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah . He is among the first writing prophets, and the last chapter of Hosea has a format similar to wisdom literature . </P> <P> Like Amos, Hosea elevated the religion of Israel to the altitude of ethical monotheism, being the first to emphasize the moral side of God's nature . Israel's faithlessness, which resisted all warnings, compelled Him to punish the people because of His own holiness . Hosea considers infidelity as the chief sin, of which Israel, the adulterous wife, has been guilty against her loving husband, God . Against this he sets the unquenchable love of God, who, in spite of this infidelity, does not cast Israel away forever, but will take His people unto Himself again after the judgment . </P>

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