Hosea 3:1
Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman, loved by her husband, but who is an adulteress. Love her just as I, Yahweh, love the people of Israel, although they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
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2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a nation that is set apart to Yahweh your God. He has chosen you to be a people for him to possess, more than all the other peoples that are on the face of the earth.
Judges 10:16They got rid of the foreign gods among them and they worshiped Yahweh. Then Yahweh could bear Israel's misery no longer.
2 Kings 13:23But Yahweh was gracious to Israel, and had compassion on them and concern for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So Yahweh did not destroy them, and he still has not driven them away from his presence.
Nehemiah 9:31But in your great mercies you did not make a complete end of them, or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 123:2See, as the eyes of servants look to their master's hand, 1 as the eyes of a maid look to her mistress's hand, 1 so our eyes look to Yahweh our God 1 until he has mercy on us. 1
Isaiah 45:22Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; 1 for I am God, and there is no other. 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 →