Hosea’s Symbolic Marriage
Hosea 3YHWH said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another, and is an adulteress, just as YHWH loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer+3:2 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels and a half of barley. I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous and you must not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
For the children of Israel will live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek YHWH their God, and David their king. They will come with trembling to YHWH and to his blessings in the last days.