Hosea 3:3

Hosea 3:3

Israel Will Return to God

1 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a ^alover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.”

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

3 And I said to her, “You shall ^astay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”

4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days ^awithout king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ^bephod or ^cteraphim.

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and ^aseek the Lord their God and ^bDavid their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the ^clatter days.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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abide for me—separate from intercourse with any other man, and remaining for me who have redeemed thee (compare Deuteronomy 21:13).

so will I also be for thee—remain for thee, not taking any other consort. As Israel should long remain without serving other gods, yet separate from Jehovah; so Jehovah on His part, in this long period of estrangement, would form no marriage covenant with any other people (compare Hosea 3:4). He would not immediately receive her to marriage privileges, but would test her repentance and discipline her by the long probation; still the marriage covenant would hold good, she was to be kept separated for but a time, not divorced (Isaiah 50:1); in God's good time she shall be restored.

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