World English Bible
Hosea 3:2
“So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.”
Verse in context — Hosea 3
1
Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
2
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
3
I said to her, "You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.
4
For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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