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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And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'
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And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;
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and I say unto her, `Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also am for thee.'

The Meaning of Israel’s Desolation and Future Hope

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For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.
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Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.
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