Hosea 3:1-5 NIV
Hosea’s Reconciliation With His
Wife
1The Lord Said To me, “Go, show your love to
your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love
her as The Lord Loves the Israelites, though they turn
to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
3Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be
intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.”
4 For the
Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or
sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. 5Afterward the Israelites will return and
seek The Lord their GOD and David their KING. They
will come trembling to the Lord and to His blessings in the last days.
By the prophet's taking back his wife, though she had proved
unfaithful; by his entering into a new contract with her; and by his giving her
hopes of reconciliation, after she should for some time prove, as in a state of
widowhood, the sincerity of her repentance; is represented the gracious manner
in which GOD Will Restore the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, Hosea 3:1-4.
It is also very strongly
intimated that the whole house of Israel will be added to the Church of CHRIST
in the latter days, Hosea 3:5.
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