Hosea 3:2 KJV — MannaFest

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

KJV

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ASV

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

WEB

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

YLT

And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

DBT

So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

About this book

Old Testament

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Hosea — A prophet commanded to marry an unfaithful wife — his marriage becomes the sermon. Fourteen chapters on covenant unfaithfulness and a love that will not let Israel go.

Author: Hosea son of Beeri (1:1)
Date: Ministry c. 755–715 BC — the decades leading up to the 722 BC fall of the northern kingdom

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11 verses on the floor

Genesis 34:12
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Leviticus 27:16
And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Genesis 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
Isaiah 5:10
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

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Note, Poverty and disgrace sometimes prove a happy means of making great sinners true penitents. (2.) The new terms upon which God is willing to come with them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Hosea pays this for the redemption of his wife, who has become the slave of her paramour. The price being half grain was because the latter was the allowance of food for the slave, and of the coarsest kind, not wheat, but barley. Israel, as committing sin, was the slave of sin (Joh 8:34;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Fifteen pieces of silver - It was half the value of a slave, Exod. xxi, 32. An homer of barley - About fourteen bushels. Of barley - The meanest kind of provision; and suited to a low condition, all this is, to set forth Israel's indigence and ingratitude, and God's bounty to Israel.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

HOS 3:2EZE 45:11 ISA 5:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
HOS 3:2EXO 22:17 GEN 34:12
HOS 3:2EXO 22:17 1SA 18:25
HOS 3:2ISA 5:10 LEV 26:26
HOS 3:2GEN 34:12 EXO 22:16-17
HOS 3:2ISA 5:10 HAG 2:16
HOS 3:2ISA 5:10 HAG 1:6
HOS 3:2EXO 22:17 DEU 22:29

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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