Hosea 3

Hosea 3

Further Assurances of God’s Redeeming Love

1The Lord said to me again, “Go, love a woman who has a lover and is an adulteress, just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”[#2 Sam 6.19; 1 Chr 16.3; Hos 1.2]

2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.[#Ruth 4.10; #3.2 Gk: Heb a homer of barley and a lethek of barley]

3And I said to her, “You must remain as mine for many days; you shall not prostitute yourself; you shall not have intercourse with a man, nor I with you.”

4For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.[#Ex 28.6; Judg 17.5; Hos 13.10, 11; Zech 10.2]

5Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.[#Jer 31.9; 50.4, 5; Ezek 34.23, 24; Mic 4.1]

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