Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said the Lord unto me,.... Or, as the Targum,
"the Lord said unto me again'';
for the word yet or again is to be joined to this, and not the following clause; and shows that this is a new…
Barnes' Notes
Go yet, love a woman, beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress - This woman is the same Gomer, whom the prophet had before been bidden to take, and whom, (it appears from this verse) had forsaken him,…
Some think that this chapter refers to Judah, the two tribes, as the adulteress the prophet married (Hos 1:3) represented the ten tribes; for this was not to be divorced, as the ten tribes were, but…
Cambridge Bible
Go yet, love Rather, Once more go love, indicating that the narrative dropped at Hos 1:9 is now resumed. (Notice also in this connexion the change of the third person into the first in chap. 3) It is…
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