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Hosea 3:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols. "

Hosea 3:4

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2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

3 I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”

4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.

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Hosea 1:10

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"Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’"

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Exodus 19:6

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"and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”"

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Exodus 29:45

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"I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God."

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Joshua 7:12

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"Therefore the children of Israel can’t stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you."

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Isaiah 17:9

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"In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation."

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Leviticus 22:15

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"The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the LORD,"

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Hosea 3:1

"The LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”"

Hosea 3:2

"So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley."

Hosea 3:3

"I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”"

Hosea 3:5

"Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days."

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