# Hosea 03 📖: Hosea Redeems His Wife
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> [!info] Table of Contents
> [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]]
> [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]]
> [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]]
> [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]]
> [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]]
> [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]]
> [[#💬 Discussion Questions]]
> [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]]
> [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]]
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]]
> [[#📂 Internal Notes]]
## 📜 Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### An Illustration of God’s Love for Idolatrous Israel
[[#Verse 01.]] The Lord said to me, “Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”
[[#Verse 02.]] So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.
[[#Verse 03.]] Then I told her, “You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or become joined to another man, and I also will wait for you.”
[[#Verse 04.]] For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
[[#Verse 05.]] Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the Lord their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the Lord in fear and receive his blessings in future days.
## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary
###### Overall.
###### Verse 01.
###### Verse 02.
###### Verse 03.
###### Verse 04.
###### Verse 05.
## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights
1. Chapter 3 has only five verses and is the shortest chapter in Hosea.
2. Chapter 1 tells Hosea's story in the third person, but chapter 3 is told in Hosea's own voice.
3. The Hebrew word for "love" appears four times in 3:1.
4. Hosea paid fifteen shekels of silver plus a quantity of barley (3:2).
5. Exodus 21:32 sets the value of a slave at thirty shekels. Some scholars think Hosea's silver and barley together equaled about that amount.
6. The raisin cakes in 3:1 appear to have been connected with pagan festivals.
7. Pillars, the ephod, and household idols (teraphim) in 3:4 were objects used in worship and seeking guidance, both legitimate and pagan.
8. "David their king" (3:5) was written over two hundred years after David died, so it points to a coming Davidic ruler.
9. "In the last days" (3:5) is a phrase the prophets often use for the time of God's final restoration.
10. The northern kingdom's people did live without their own king after Samaria fell to Assyria in 722 BC.
## 🧠 Chapter Summary
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## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter
Christ is our Redeemer who paid the price to buy us back. Hosea bought his wife back from bondage (3:2), and Jesus redeemed us with His own precious blood (1 Peter 1:18-19).
## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application
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## 💬 Discussion Questions
1. God tells Hosea to love his wife again even though she loves another (3:1). What does this show about the kind of love God has for us?
2. Hosea paid a price to bring her back (3:2). How does this help you understand what Jesus paid for you?
3. Israel would live many days without a king or sacrifice before returning to the Lord (3:4-5). Why might God allow a season of emptiness before restoration?
## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember
- 📖 verse 1: Hosea is told to love his wife again, just as the Lord loves Israel.
- 📖 verse 2: Hosea buys her back for silver and barley.
- 📖 verse 5: Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king.
## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference
- 🔗 [[1 Peter 01#Verse 18.|1 Peter 1:18-19]] - Redeemed with the precious blood of Christ.
- 🔗 [[Romans 05#Verse 08.|Romans 5:8]] - God shows His love while we were still sinners.
- 🔗 [[Ezekiel 34#Verse 23.|Ezekiel 34:23-24]] - God's servant David will be their shepherd.
- 🔗 [[Jeremiah 30#Verse 09.|Jeremiah 30:9]] - They will serve the Lord and David their king.
- 🔗 [[Luke 15#Verse 20.|Luke 15:20-24]] - The father welcomes the lost son home.
## 🙏 Devotional Reflection
📝 SOAP: [[Hosea 03 - SOAP|The Scandal of Grace]]
## 📂 Internal Notes