Hosea 3
God instructs Hosea to love an adulterous woman, symbolizing God's love for the unfaithful Israelites who have turned to other gods. Hosea buys the woman for 15 shekels of silver and a homer and lethech of barley, and tells her to remain faithful to him. This act represents God's plan for Israel, who will be without a king or spiritual leaders for a time, but will eventually return to God and seek their rightful king, David. Israel will ultimately come to God in fear and reverence in the latter days.
1And the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.3And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."4For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.5Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.
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