HOSEA 3
1 And the LORD said unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend and an adulteress, even as the LORD loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3 and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man’s wife: so will I also be toward thee.
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.
5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall come with fear unto the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.
Cross-references
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- 1Jer 3:12–14, Isa 45:22, Hos 1:2–3, Mic 7:18–20, Jer 31:20, Deu 7:6–7, Luk 1:54–55, Hos 11:8
- 2Gen 34:12, Ezk 45:11, Lev 27:16, Gen 31:41, Exo 22:17, Isa 5:10, 1Sa 18:25
- 3Deu 21:13
- 4Jdg 17:5, 2Ch 15:2, Gen 31:19, Dan 12:11, 1Sa 23:9, Jhn 19:15, Dan 9:27, Exo 28:4
- 5Jer 30:9, Jer 50:4–5, Ezk 34:23–24, Isa 2:2, Ezk 37:22–25, Rom 2:4, Isa 55:3–4, Psa 130:3–4