otcanon
Hosea 3
Hosea is commanded to redeem his estranged wife at a price — fifteen pieces of silver and grain — and to hold her in a season of waiting, neither harlotry nor remarriage, until the covenant is renewed. This act types the condition of Israel across a long dispensational gap: no king, no prince, no sacrifice, no priestly apparatus, no ephod. Then the chapter turns prophetic — in the latter days the children of Israel return, seek Jehovah their God, and seek David their king. That David is the Davidic Servant, the covenant king foreordained to stand in the last days, not the historical figure returned from death.
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Then said the LORD unto me, 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.
2
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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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.
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For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
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Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
