Hosea 3:2
“So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver,.... Or, "fifteen shekels", which was about one pound seventeen…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver - The fifteen shekels were half the price of a common slave Exo…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Hosea 3:1-5
Some think that this chapter refers to Judah, the two tribes, as the adulteress the prophet married (Hos 1:3)…
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