Hosea 3
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Chapter 3
Chapter Overview:
Verses:
Another type of the spiritual whoredom of Israel, ver. 1 - 3.
The punishment of it, ver. 4.
Their reformation, ver. 5.
| 3:1 | Of her friend - Her husband. An adulteress - Either already tainted, or that certainly will be tainted with that vice.According to the love - Let this be the emblem of my love to the children of Israel. And love - Love the feasts of their idols, where they drink wine to excess. |
| 3:2 | Fifteen pieces of silver - It was half the value of a slave, Exodus 21:32 .An homer of barley - About fourteen bushels. Of barley - The meanest kind of provision; and suited to a low condition, all this is, to set forth Israel's indigence and ingratitude, and God's bounty to Israel. |
| 3:3 | Abide for me - Thou shalt wait unmarried, until I espouse thee. |
| 3:4 | For - Now the parable is unfolded, it shall be with Israel as with such a woman, they and she were guilty of adultery, both punished long, both made slaves, kept hardly, and valued meanly, yet in mercy at last pardoned, and re - accepted tho' after a long time of probation.Without a king - None of their own royal line shall sit on the throne.A prince - Strangers shall be princes and governors over them. Without a sacrifice - Offered according to the law. An image - They could carry none of their images with them, and the Assyrians would not let them make new ones. Ephod - No priest as well as no ephod. And without teraphim - Idolatrous images kept in their private houses, like the Roman household gods; in one word, such should be the state of their captives; they should have nothing of their own either in religious or civil affairs, but be wholly under the power of their conquering enemies. |
| 3:5 | Return - Repent. And David - The Messiah who is the son of David. And his goodness - God and his goodness; that is, the good and gracious God. God in Christ and with Christ shall be worshipped.The latter days - In the days of the Messiah, in gospel - times. |