Hosea 3:1
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Judges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
2 Kings 13:23But the LORD was gracious to Israel and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, the LORD has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.
Nehemiah 9:31But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
Psalms 123:2As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
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 →