Hosea 3:1
The Lord told me, “Go again and love a woman who is loved by another and who is committing adultery, just as the Lord loves the children of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and love their sensual worship.”
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2So I bought her back for fifteen shekels of silver and one and half homers of barley.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are the Lord your God's holy people. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special people, valued above all other peoples on the earth.
Judges 10:16So they got rid of the foreign gods they had and worshiped the Lord. And the Lord couldn't stand Israel's misery any longer.
2 Kings 13:23But the Lord graciously helped them and was kind to them. He looked after them because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Even to this day he's been unwilling to destroy them or to throw them out of his presence.
Nehemiah 9:31But because of your wonderful mercy you did not finish with them, and you did not abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 123:2Just as servants look to their master, or a maid looks to her mistress, so we keep our eyes on you, Lord our God, waiting for you to be merciful to us.
Isaiah 45:22Everyone on earth, come to me and be saved, for I am God and there is no God apart from me.
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 →