Hosea 3

1Yahweh 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.”Cross-references: Ex 32:6 · Deut 7:6 · Judg 9:27 · Judg 10:16 · 2Sam 6:19 · 2Ki 13:23 · +25 more

2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.Cross-references: Gen 31:41 · Gen 34:12 · Ex 22:17 · Lev 27:16 · 1Sam 18:25 · Isa 5:10 · +1 more

3I 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.”Cross-references: Deut 21:13

4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.Cross-references: Gen 31:19 · Gen 49:10 · Ex 28:4 · Lev 8:7 · Judg 8:27 · Judg 17:5 · +29 more

5Afterward 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.Cross-references: Num 24:14 · Deut 4:30 · 1Ki 12:16 · Ps 130:3 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 27:12 · +23 more