
BIBLE28 - Hosea
The Ten Minute Bible Hour Podcast
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Will Hosea Divorce Gomer?
In Hosea 3-1, the Lord said to me, go show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and isn't adulterous. And then in one of the most plainly understated statements of beauty and profundity in the entire Bible, Hosea just casually says so I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and about a Homer and lethic of barley. Dude used his meager resources to buy his wife back out of trafficking and slavery that she voluntarily signed up for. He had the equivalent of about five silver coins, which just as a point of reference sounds like this one. That's what he was able to muster to buy
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