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 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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Hosea 3:2
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: