Hosea 3:1
And LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
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Deuteronomy 7:6For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God. LORD thy God has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Judges 10:16And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served LORD. And his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
2 Kings 13:23But LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence as yet.
Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them, for thou are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes [are] to LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.
Isaiah 45:22Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 3:1
God is still by the prophet inculcating the same thing upon this careless people, and much in the same manner as before, by a type or sign, that of the dealings of a husband with an adulterous wife. In this chapter we have, I. The bad character which the people of Israel now had; they were, as is said of the Athenians ( Acts xvii. 16 ), "wholly given to idolatry," ver. 1 . II. The low condition which they should be reduced to by their captivity, and the other instances of God's controversy with them, ver. 2-4 .… Read the whole commentary →