Hosea 3:1
The LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
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In Context
2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:6For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Judges 10:16They put away the foreign gods from amongst them and served the LORD; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
2 Kings 13:23But the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and favoured them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
Nehemiah 9:31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Isaiah 45:22“Look 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 →