Hosea 3
In this chapter, Hosea is told to take back a woman involved with another man and live with her in a period of restrained fidelity, symbolizing the Lord’s enduring commitment to Israel. The chapter also says Israel will spend a time without its political and religious institutions before turning back to the Lord and seeking Him and the Davidic kingship again.
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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.
5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.