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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Hosea 3:2

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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3:2 So I bought her back: The biblical text does not indicate why the prophet needed to purchase his wife. Most interpreters have assumed that the unfaithful Gomer had fallen into debt and become a slave. The meager price Hosea paid for her may indicate that Gomer was considered a slave of little value (see Exod 21:32; Lev 27:4).
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