“And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch.” (Hosea 12:12)   About a thousand years after Jacob fled to Syria, Hosea speaks of Jacob when he prophesies to Israel about their infidelity to the Lord by idolatry and moral decay. The Lord had Hosea illustrate this with his life as a faithful husband to an adulterous wife. He brings up Jacob to show the diligent and resolute character of Jacob, the father of the twelve tri