Hosea Redeems His Wife

Hosea 3

1 And the Lord said to me, x "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins." 2 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a y homer and a lethech 1 of barley. 3 And I said to her, "You must z dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you." 4 For the children of Israel z shall dwell many days a without king or prince, b without sacrifice or c pillar, without d ephod or e household gods. 5 Afterward f the children of Israel shall return and g seek the Lord their God, and h David their king, i and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the j latter days.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 1:2 - 3
    When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 27:16
    If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
    Ezekiel 45:11
    The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 21:13
    And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
  4. Cross References
    Hosea 3:3
    And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.
  5. Cross References
    Hosea 10:3
    For now they will say: "We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord ; and a king - what could he do for us?
    Hosea 10:7
    Samaria's king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.
  6. Cross References
    Hosea 9:4
    They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners' bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
  7. Cross References
    Hosea 10:1 - 2
    Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.
  8. Cross References
    Judges 8:27
    And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
  9. Cross References
    Genesis 31:19
    Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
  10. Cross References
    Hosea 14:1
    Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
  11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 29:13
    You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
    Jeremiah 50:4
    In those days and in that time, declares the Lord, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the Lord their God.
  12. Cross References
    Ezekiel 34:23
    And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
    Hosea 1:11
    And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
    Jeremiah 23:5
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
  13. Cross References
    Micah 7:17
    They shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:2
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it.
    Micah 4:1 - 3
    It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it.
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