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Verse Hosea 3:2. _FIFTEEN_ PIECES _OF SILVER_] If they were _shekels_,
the price of this woman was about _two_ pounds _five_ shillings.
_A HOMER OF BARLEY_] As the homer was about _eight bushels_, or...
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SO I BOUGHT HER TO ME FOR FIFTEEN PIECES OF SILVER - The fifteen
shekels were half the price of a common slave Exodus 21:32, and so may
denote her worthlessness. The homer and half-homer of barley, or...
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CHAPTER 3 ISRAEL'S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
_ 1. The past (Hosea 3:1) _
2. The present (Hosea 3:4)
3. The future (Hosea 3:5)
Hosea 3:1. The
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The prophet, bidden yet again to love a woman, who is loved by another
and is an adulteress, in this respect imitating Yahweh's love for His
unfaithful people, buys her out of slavery and subjects her...
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FIFTEEN PIECES OF SILVER. fifteen shekels (App-51.) The price of the
redemption of. slave.
HOMER. See App-61....
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_THE UGLINESS OF SIN -- HOSEA 3:1-5:_ When you begin to talk about sin
some get angry and others mourn its ugliness. Gomer had proven herself
to be an unfaithful wife to the prophet of God. Israel had...
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LOVE RECONCILINGGOMER LOVED
TEXT: Hosea 3:1-5
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And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her
friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of
Israel, though they...
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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer
of barley, and an half homer of barley:
SO I BOUGHT HER. The price paid is too small to be a probable dowry
wherewith to buy a w...
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3:2 half-homer (o-19) * Half-homer is _ lethec_ = 15 _ seahs_ . A _
seah_ is about a peck. see Exodus 16:36 ; 1 Kings 18:32 ....
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THE ATTEMPTS TO RECLAIM THE ERRING WIFE
In an episode in the life of Hosea and his relations with Gomer (cp.
Hosea 2:14) the prophet finds a parable of Jehovah's punishment of
Israel. Having bought ba...
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BOUGHT HER] She appears to have become the voluntary slave-concubine
of her paramour. FIFTEEN.. SILVER] presumably the ordinary price for a
female slave. Joseph was sold for twenty (Genesis 37:28)....
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THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING
HOSEA
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
HOSEA RETURNS TO HIS WIFE
V1 Then the *Lord said to me again, ‘Go and show your love to your
wife again. You must love her al...
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PIECES OF SILVER. — Shekels.
SO I BOUGHT HER. — Gomer was treated as no longer a wife, but
requiring to be restored to such a position. The purchase of wives is
still a very common practice in the Ea...
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וָ אֶכְּרֶ֣הָ לִּ֔י בַּ חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה
עָשָׂ֖ר כּ
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Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1
THE SIN AGAINST LOVE
Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1;
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“A DOOR OF HOPE”
Hosea 2:14-23; Hosea 3:1-5
The valley of Achor was a long wild pass up through the hills. The
prophet says that a door of hope would open there, like the Mont Cenis
tunnel which lead...
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Finally, the prophet was commanded to love and find and restore his
sinning and wandering bride. Through his obedience he entered into
fellowship with the amazing tenderness of God, and was thereby
pr...
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So (c) I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an
homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
(c) Yet I loved her and paid a small portion for her, lest she would
have perceive...
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The Prophet's purchase hath doubtless an allusion to the redemption by
the Lord Jesus Christ. It was spoken of as a goodly price, the
Redeemer was bought for, Zechariah 11:12. Here the Prophet gave bu...
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The prophecy of Hosea naturally divides itself into two principal
divisions with minor sections. The first consists of Hosea 1:1-11;
Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; the second, of the rest of the book. Wit...
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Death - Redemption Restoration
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Chapter 3 is only 5 verses but has been claimed, "One of the
greatest prophetic passages in the Word of God." (J. Vernon McGee -
Through The Bible V...
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These verses have been read together, for in these four the Prophet
explains the vision presented to him. He says, first, that he had done
what had been enjoined him by God; which was conveyed to him...
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Chapter 3 reveals another detail of the people's history during the
time of their rejection, a rejection followed by their return to God.
Israel should remain for a long time apart to wait for their G...
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SO I BOUGHT HER TO ME FOR FIFTEEN PIECES OF SILVER,.... Or, "fifteen
shekels", which was about one pound seventeen shillings and six pence
of our money, reckoning a shekel at two shillings and six pen...
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So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an
homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Ver. 2. _So I bought her to me._] God is to be obeyed, though it go
never so much agai...
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_So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver_ That is,
according to the ancient custom, I paid her dower. It was usual among
the Hebrews for men to purchase, or pay a consideration for, their
w...
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So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, a shekel being
worth about 62 cents, AND FOR AN HOMER OF BARLEY AND AN HALF HOMER OF
BARLEY, a total of some twelve bushels of grain. This was dowry...
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THE NEW MARRIAGE OF THE ADULTERESS.
In a second symbolical marriage the faithful love of God, which for
that very reason is also jealous and intends to lead to repentance, is
pictured....
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HALF HOMER:
_ Heb._ lethech...
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1-3 The dislike of men to true religion is because they love objects
and forms, which allow them to indulge, instead of mortifying their
lusts. How wonderful that a holy God should have good-will to...
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SO I BOUGHT HER; as I was commanded, I procured, or, as we read it,
bought her: which exactly answers to the state of the Jews when in
Egypt, tainted with Egyptian idolatry, and poor, without a portio...
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Hosea 3:2 bought H3739 (H8799) fifteen H6240 H2568 silver H3701 one
H2563 homers H3963 barley H8184...
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‘So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of
barley, and a half-homer of barley,'
This may signify the bridal price. Or it may indicate that she was a
bondslave and therefore ha...
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HOSEA IS CALLED ON TO TAKE ANOTHER WOMAN AS WIFE WHO WAS AN
ADULTERESS, BUT WAS NOT TO HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HER. THIS WAS AS
A SIGN THAT ISRAEL TOO WAS TO LOSE HER RELATIONSHIP WITH YHWH,
ALTHOU...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's undying love to Israel. The future kingdom on
earth.
CHARACTERS: God, Hosea.
CONCLUSION: God's people (Israel) who have gone awhoring from Him must
take upon themselves the shame...
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Hosea 3:1. _Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an
adulteress._ This action is forbidden by the law of Moses, and also by
our Saviour. What then would become of the prophet's moral charact...
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_And for an homer of barley._
BARLEY A MEAN FOOD
Why an “homer of barley”? Because it was a mean food, and in those
times rather the food of beasts than of men. God promised to feed His
people with...
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 3:1 Hosea returns to his marriage, which is
still an image for God and Israel. Israel’s hope, like Judah’s,
lies with the house of David.
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HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 3:2 BOUGHT HER probably means that Hosea
redeemed Gomer from slavery, though the exact custom is unknown.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
HOSEA 3:1.] The significant pair is introduced again with a fresh
application. In a second symbolic marriage, the faithful, chastening
love of God is set forth to adulterous Israel. L...
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EXPOSITION
This short chapter contains two sections, of which the first,
comprising Hosea 3:1, is a symbolic representation; and the second,
consisting of Hosea 3:4 and Hosea 3:5, gives the explanatio...
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Then said the LORD unto me (Hsa Hosea 3:1),
Hosea is speaking here.
Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress,
according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, wh...
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1 Samuel 18:25; Exodus 22:17; Ezekiel 45:11; Genesis 31:41; Genes
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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 th...