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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Hosea 3:1-5

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 prepared to deliver the messages which followed. It must have been a startling command, "Go ye, love a woman . . . An adulteress," but its explanation was found in the words, "even as the Lord loveth the children of Israel." Hosea was commanded to exercise love in spite of his wife's sin, in order... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 3:1-5

YHWH’S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (Hosea 1:2 to Hosea 3:5 ). There is nothing more poignant than this beautiful picture of God in His love seeing Israel as His wife, even though she has been unfaithful to Him, and determining that once she has learned her lesson He will woo her back to Himself. But the picture comes first as a stark warning to the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 3:3

‘And I said to her, “You shall abide for me many days; you will not play the harlot, and you will not be any man’s wife, so will I also be toward you.” Then Hosea informed her of the terms of the marriage. She would have to dwell with him and wait many days before he would come in to her. And in that time she was not to seek out anyone else, or even have relations with him. By this means he would prove whether she did wish to be a faithful wife or not. And his attitude would be the same towards... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hosea 3:1-5

Hosea 3:1-Deuteronomy : . 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 to a purifying seclusion ( Hosea 3:1-Leviticus :). In the same way Israel shall be deprived for a time of her civil and religious institutions (? in exile), in order to return later under Yahweh, a purified and happy people. The reference is still to Gomer, though this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hosea 3:3

This verse is the form of contract, or the articles of agreement, between the prophet and this woman. Abide for me; dwell with me, and expect and wait in an unmarried condition, until I see it fit to espouse thee. Many days; it is not said how long, but a slave, as she is represented here, may not think this severe; the preferment will compensate her waiting. Thou shalt not play the harlot: this is the third condition, she is to live chaste and modest, not to do as she had done. This was to... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

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. Love] Not take, as ch. Hosea 1:2. Woman] Many think another person, not his former wife; others, that she was his former wife, but unfaithful and living with another man, an adulteress. This love greater, higher than the former. One proved disturbed relation, and the other restoration to God. Friend]... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hosea 3:1-5

Chapter 3Then 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, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine ( Hsa Hosea 3:1 ).In other words, God is saying, "Now go take your wife again, love her again though she has become a prostitute and has left you. Go, and take her, love her again."So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver ( Hsa Hosea... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 3:1-5

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 character? How should two prostituted women, such as this and his former wife, be so fruitful in children? This indicates that those marriages of Hosea, as Jerome believed, were visions only, by which he endeavoured to dissuade his country from idolatry. The woman was the synagogue, her adultery was... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hosea 3:3

Hos 3:3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee. Ver. 3. Thou shalt abide for me many days ] Even till the last days, Hosea 3:5 , or last year, as Ezekiel hath it, Ezekiel 38:8 . Thus they have abode, or sat (as a desolate widow, so the Hebrew hath it), 700 years before Christ, and above 1600 years since, in a most forlorn condition; crying out in their, daily prayers to God,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hosea 3:3

Thou shalt abide: Deuteronomy 21:13 Reciprocal: Genesis 38:24 - played the harlot Jeremiah 2:20 - playing Jeremiah 23:4 - I Ezekiel 38:8 - many days Daniel 8:26 - for 1 Corinthians 7:4 - General read more