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    Hosea · 5 verses

    Hosea 3

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    Hosea is told to love his adulterous wife again, and then buys her with silver, barley, and no explanation whatever.

    The purchasevv. 1–3

    The LORD gives Hosea a domestic command of extraordinary awkwardness: love his wife again, though another loves her and she is an adulteress. Israel’s own offence is set beside it, with the wonderfully ordinary detail of raisin cakes offered to idols. Hosea obeys, paying fifteen shekels of silver, a homer of barley, and a lethech of barley; the chapter supplies the amounts and leaves the arithmetic to stare at the reader. He tells her that both of them are to live many days without belonging to anyone else.

    Many daysvv. 4–5

    The household arrangement becomes a picture of Israel’s coming condition: many days without king or prince, sacrifice or sacred pillar, ephod or idol. Then the people will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king, coming trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days. The chapter ends there, with the return named and the last days left standing in the doorway.

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    1. Hos 3:1Then 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.”

    2. Hos 3:2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

    3. Hos 3:3Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will do the same for you.”

    4. Hos 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

    5. Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

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    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 103 passages were voted onto 5 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 5Jeremiah 30:9Instead, they will serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
    • 5Jeremiah 50:4–5“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.
    • 5Ezekiel 34:23–24I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.
    • 5Isaiah 2:2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
    • 5Ezekiel 37:22–25I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over all of them. Then they will no longer be two nations and will never again be divided into two kingdoms.
    • 5Romans 2:4Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
    • 1Jeremiah 3:12–14Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
    • 4Judges 17:5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
    • 5Psalms 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
    • 1Hosea 1:2–3When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
    • 1Isaiah 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
    • 3Deuteronomy 21:13and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
    • 5Micah 4:1In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
    • 1Psalms 106:43–46Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
    • 1Luke 1:54–55He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful,
    • 1Micah 7:7But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

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