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The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:3

Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shall not be for another man. The prophet imposes certain restrictions of a very stringent character on his wife; he places her in a state of isolation; her past excesses and his purpose of effecting her reformation necessitate such measures, however strict and severe or even harsh they may appear. She is not to be admitted into full fellowship with her husband, nor is she to be allowed the possibility of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and teraphim. For a long series of years they were thus doomed to be without civil polity, or ecclesiastical privilege, or prophetic intimations. More particularly they were to remain without royal rule, or princely power, or priestly function, or prophetic instruction. As the prophet's wife was neither to be, strictly speaking, her... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4

The kingless state and priestless Church. The singular symbolism of this book is intended vividly to depict the misery of Israel, by which she was to be driven in penitence and contrition to seek again the Divine favor she had forfeited. The woman whom the prophet purchased and married was to be deprived at once of her husband and of her lovers, and in this forlorn and anomalous state was to be an emblem of Israel, cut off at the same time from Jehovah, her true Husband, to whom she had been... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4-5

The applicability of these verses. There is an important question in connection with these verses which presses for solution, and that is—Are the children of Israel the descendants of the ten tribes exclusively? Or has the expression, as used by the prophet, that wider and larger signification in which we popularly employ it, namely, as including all the descendants of Jacob or Israel, in other words, all the Jewish or Hebrew race? These questions involve a prior consideration. The ten... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 3:3

Thou shalt abide for me many days - Literally, “thou shalt sit,” solitary and as a widow Deuteronomy 21:13, quiet and sequestered; not going after others, as heretofore, but waiting for him; Exodus 24:14; Jeremiah 3:2); and “that,” for an undefined, but long season, until he should come and take her to himself.And thou shalt not be for another man - Literally, “and thou shalt not be to a man,” i. e., not even to thine own man or husband. She was to remain without following sin, yet without... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel shall abide many days - The condition described is one in which there should be no civil polity, none of the special temple-service, nor yet the idolatry, which they had hitherto combined with it or substituted for it. “King and prince” include both higher and lower governors. Judah had “kings” before the captivity, and a sort of “prince” in her governors after it. Judah remained still a polity, although without the glory of her kings, until she rejected Christ.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 3:3

Hosea 3:3. And I said, Thou shalt abide for me many days The Vulgate renders this, Dies multos expectabis me, non fornicaberis, Thou shalt wait for me many days; thou shalt not commit fornication. The meaning is, that she should remain in a state of separation from the prophet, and every other man, sequestered and solitary, for many days, that there might be proof of her reformation. Thou shalt not be for another man, so will I also be for thee As there is nothing in the Hebrew for the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 3:4

Hosea 3:4. For the children of Israel shall abide many days Here begins a more plain and full explication of the symbolical action of the prophet, namely, that it signified what should befall the children of Israel; that they should continue many days in a state of captivity; without a king, as the woman continued without a husband; without the means of worshipping God according to the rites of their law; and yet refraining from idolatry, as the woman refrained from unfaithfulness to her... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

Steadfast love (3:1-5)The story now returns to relate how Hosea, having found that his prostitute wife had become a slave, bought her back. In the same way God will buy back his adulterous people from slavery (3:1-2). But Gomer had first to undergo a period of discipline and live with Hosea as a slave, not as a wife. Israel likewise must have a period of discipline. She must live in captivity in a foreign land, where she will be without her own civil government and will be separated from all... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 3:3

abide . . . many days. See the signification in verses: Hosea 4:5 . Compare Jeremiah 3:1 , Jeremiah 3:2 . abide. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 21:13 ). App-92 . See the signification of the sign in verses: Hosea 4:5 , and compare Jeremiah 31:1 , Jeremiah 31:2 . Hebrew. yashab = to dwell (sequestered). Same word as in Deuteronomy 21:13 . Not the same word as in Hosea 11:6 . many days. In the case of the sign = a full month. The signification is seen now, in the present Dispensation. ... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 3:4-5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 3:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 3:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 3:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 3:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 3:3

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