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Hosea 3 — Sermon Preparation
Hosea buys back his unfaithful wife, and her period of waiting prefigures Israel's long exile before returning to seek the LORD. Below is a research summary for Hosea 3, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- classic sermon excerpts
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Hosea 3 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָהַב | ʼâhab | H157 | 3 | have affection |
| שְׂעֹרָה | sᵉʻôrâh | H8184 | 2 | barley |
| רַב | rab | H7227 | 2 | abundant |
| יָשַׁב | yâshab | H3427 | 2 | sit, dwell |
| לֶתֶךְ | lethek | H3963 | 1 | measure |
| אֲשִׁישָׁה | ʼăshîyshâh | H809 | 1 | closely pressed together, cake of raisins |
| תְּרָפִים | tᵉrâphîym | H8655 | 1 | Teraphim |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Hosea 3, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“God is still by the prophet inculcating the same thing upon this careless people, and much in the same manner as before, by a type or sign, that of the dealings of a husband with an adulterous wife. In this chapter we have, I. The bad character which the people of Israel now had; they were, as is said of the Athenians (Acts xvii. 16), "wholly given to idolatry," ver. 1. II. The low condition which they should be reduced to by their captivity, and the other instances of God's controversy with them, ver. 2-4. III. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 4 (Isaiah to Malachi), on Hosea 3:1–30 (Public Domain)
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