Hosea 3 - Hosea Redeems His Wife
Read kjv hosea chapter 3: The Price Of Redemption
This is the shortest chapter in Hosea but the most significant for understanding the Gospel in the Old Testament. It shows that God's love is 'Redemptive'-it pays the debt for what it already owns.
Witness the 'Scandalous Love' of a man who pays to rescue the one who betrayed him, illustrating God's plan for you. Begin your study with hosea 3 summary.
The price Hosea paid (15 silver, 1.5 homers of barley) was roughly the value of a common slave, showing how far Gomer had fallen from her original status. The 'Word Secret' is *Bachad*, meaning to 'fear' or 'tremble,' used here for the people returning to God's goodness with a holy awe at the end of days. The riches of hosea 3 explained containing expert led word study (original greek/hebrew) and passage level analysis.
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Hosea chapter 3
The Command to Buy Back the Adulteress and the Price Paid
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.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for 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 for another man: so will I also be for thee.
The Interpretation: Israel's Period of Seclusion and Final Return
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.