Hosea 3:1

Then said Hashem unto me, Go again, love an isha (woman, wife) beloved of her re'a (friend, companion), yet a noefet (adulteress), just like the ahavat Hashem toward the Bnei Yisroel, who look to elohim acharim, and love heathen religion raisin cakes. + 3:1 Jer 44:19

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

In Context

2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of kesef, and for a chomer and a half of se'orim; + 3:2 1K 1:18-19

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:6For thou art an Am Kadosh unto Hashem Eloheicha; Hashem Eloheicha hath chosen thee to be an Am Segullah (Treasured People) unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of ha'adamah.

Judges 10:16And they put away the elohei hanekhar (strange, foreign g-ds) from among them, and served Hashem; and His nefesh was troubled with the amal Yisroel (misery of Yisroel).

2 Kings 13:23And Hashem was gracious unto them, and had rachamim on them, and showed regard unto them, because of His brit (covenant) with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya'akov, and would not destroy them, neither cast He them from His presence up to now.

Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless for Thy great merciesʼ sake Thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for Thou art El Channun v'Rachum.

Psalms 123:2Hinei, as the eyes of avadim look unto the yad adoneihem, 1 and as the eyes of a shifchah (maiden) unto the yad of her gevirah; 1 so our eyes wait upon Hashem Eloheinu, 1 until He have channun (favor, grace) upon us. 1

Isaiah 45:22Turn unto Me, and be ye saved, 1 kol afsei Eretz (all the ends of the Earth); 1 I am El (G-d), 1 and there is no other. + 45:22 G-d 1

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 →

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