Hosea3

The LORD commands Hosea to again love an adulterous woman, symbolizing His enduring love for idolatrous Israel. Hosea redeems her and instructs her to remain faithful, which foreshadows Israel's future period of spiritual and political desolation without traditional leadership or religious practices. This period will ultimately lead to Israel's return to seek the LORD their God and David their king in the latter days.

The Command to Love an Adulteress

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Then said the Lord to me, Goe yet, and loue a woman (beloued of her husband, and was an harlot) according to the loue of the Lord toward the children of Israel: yet they looked to other gods, and loued the wine bottels.
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So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barlie and an halfe homer of barlie.
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And I said vnto her, Thou shalt abide with me many dayes: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be to none other man, and I will be so vnto thee.

The Meaning of Israel’s Desolation and Future Hope

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For the children of Israel shall remaine many dayes without a King and without a prince, and without an offering, and without an image, and without an Ephod and without Teraphim.
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Afterward shall the children of Israel conuert, and seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their King, and shall feare the Lord, and his goodnes in the latter dayes.
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