Hosea, a Hebrew prophet, a native of the northern kingdom of Israel, and a contemporary of Isaiah, the burden of whose prophecy is, Israel has by her idolatries and immoralities forsaken the Lord, and the Lord has forsaken Israel, in whom alone her salvation is to be found.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Horsley, Samuel * Hoshangabad