Hosea 3:2

fifteen pieces of silver. fifteen shekels (App-51.) The price of the redemption of. slave.

homer. See App-61.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver - The fifteen shekels were half the price of a common slave Exodus 21:32 , and so may denote...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

So (c) I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: (c) Yet I loved her and paid a...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The prophet, bidden yet again to love a woman, who is loved by another and is an adulteress, in this respect imitating Yahweh's love for His unfaithf...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

These verses have been read together, for in these four the Prophet explains the vision presented to him. He says, first, that he had done what...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: Fifteen pieces of silver - If they w...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: So I bought her. The price paid...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Attempts to Reclaim the erring Wife In an episode in the life of Hosea and his relations with Gomer (cp. Hosea 2:14 ) the prophet finds a par...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bought her ] She appears to have become the voluntary slave-concubine of her paramour. Fifteen.. silver ] presumably the ordinary price for a femal...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Pieces of silver. — Shekels. So I bought her. — Gomer was treated as no longer a wife, but requiring to be restored to such a position. The purc...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 THE SIN AGAINST LOVE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 ; Hosea 4:11 ff.; Hosea 9:10 ff.; Hosea 11:...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Door of Hope” Hosea 2:14-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 The valley of Achor was a long wild pass up through the hills. The prophet says that a door of ho...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Finally, the prophet was commanded to love and find and restore his sinning and wandering bride. Through his obedience he entered into fellowship wit...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet's purchase hath doubtless an allusion to the redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ. It was spoken of as a goodly price, the Redeemer was bo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver ,.... Or, "fifteen shekels", which was about one pound seventeen shillings and six pence of our m...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: Ver. 2. So I bought her to me. ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver That is, according to the ancient custom, I paid her dower. It was usual among the Hebrews for m...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Idolatry of Israel; The Prophet's Remonstrances; Promises to the Penitent. B. C. 760....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So I bought her; as I was commanded, I procured, or, as we read it, bought her: which exactly answers to the state of the Jews when in Egypt, taint...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea Is Called On To Take Another Woman As Wife Who Was An Adulteress, But Was Not To Have Sexual Relations With Her. This Was As A Sign That Israe...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley,' This may signify the bridal price. Or it ma...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 3:1 .] The significant pair is introduced again with a fresh application. In a second symbolic marriage, the faithful, c...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 3:1 . Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress. This action is forbidden by the law of Moses, and also by our Saviour....
The Biblical Illustrator

And for an homer of barley. Barley a mean food Why an “homer of barley”? Because it was a mean food, and in those times rather the food of beas...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This short chapter contains two sections, of which the first, comprising Hosea 3:1-28 , is a symbolic representation; and the second...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The New Marriage of the Adulteress. In a second symbolical marriage the faithful love of God, which for that very reason is also jealous and inten...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, a shekel being worth about 62 cents, and for an homer of barley and an half homer of barley, a...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 18:25 ; Exodus 22:17 ; Ezekiel 45:11 ; Genesis 31:41 ; Genesis 34:12 ; Isaiah 5:10 ; Leviticus 27:16
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fifteen pieces of silver — It was half the value of a slave, Exodus 21:32 . An homer of barley — About fourteen bushels. Of barley — The meanest k...

² So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Related Commentaries of Hosea 3:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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