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Hosea 3:1 KJV
Hosea · chapter 3 · verse 1
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.Hosea 3:1 · King James Version
Hosea 3:1 in context
1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- adulteressnâʼaphto commit adulteryH5003 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- friendrêaʻan associateH7453 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- womanʼishshâha womanH802 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Some think that this chapter refers to Judah, the two tribes, as the adulteress the prophet married (Hos 1:3) represented the ten tribes; for this was not to be divorced, as the ten tribes were, but to be left desolate for a long time, and then to return, as the two tribes did.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5