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Bought Back Again: A Nation Without Knowledge and the God Who Wounds to Heal | Hosea 3–5
Episode Overview
Today we read Hosea chapters 3 through 5. Chapter 3 is short and staggering. Hosea is told to go again and love a woman who has been unfaithful, and he buys her back for fifteen shekels of silver and a measure of barley—the price you would pay for something of little value. Then he tells her they will live together many days without the old life, a picture of Israel's coming season without king, sacrifice, or the familiar props of national religion. The stripping is deliberate, meant to break an attachment rather than merely punish it.
Chapters 4 and 5 lay out the charges…
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