Hosea Chapter 3
From The Open Bible Project
3:1 Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins."
- (a) In this the Prophet represents the person of God, who loved his Church before he called her, and did not withdraw his love when she gave herself to idols.
- (b) That is, gave themselves wholly to pleasure, and could not stop, as those that are given to drunkenness.
3:2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a [7] homer [See Hosea Footnotes 7] and a half of barley.
- (c) Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she would have perceived the greatness of my love, and abused me, and not been under duty: for fifteen pieces of silver was but half the price of a slave; (Exodus 21:32).
3:3 I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you."
- (d) I will try you a long time as in your widowhood, whether you will be mine or not.
3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
- (e) Meaning not only all the time of their captivity, but also until Christ.
- (f) That is, they would neither have administration nor religion, and their idols also in which they put their confidence, would be destroyed.
3:5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.
- (g) This is meant of Christ’s kingdom, which was promised to David to be eternal; (Psalms 72:17).
