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Selected Verse: Hosea 3:3 - Strong Concordance

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Ho 3:3 Strong Concordance And I said [0559] unto her, Thou shalt abide [03427] for me many [07227] days [03117]; thou shalt not play the harlot [02181], and thou shalt not be [01961] for another man [0376]: so will I also be for thee.
  King James And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
abide for me--separate from intercourse with any other man, and remaining for me who have redeemed thee (compare Deu 21:13).

so will I also be for thee--remain for thee, not taking any other consort. As Israel should long remain without serving other gods, yet separate from Jehovah; so Jehovah on His part, in this long period of estrangement, would form no marriage covenant with any other people (compare Hos 3:4). He would not immediately receive her to marriage privileges, but would test her repentance and discipline her by the long probation; still the marriage covenant would hold good, she was to be kept separated for but a time, not divorced (Isa 50:1); in God's good time she shall be restored.
 
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1 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Where is the bill [05612] of your mother's [0517] divorcement [03748], whom I have put away [07971]? or which of my creditors [05383] is it to whom I have sold [04376] you? Behold, for your iniquities [05771] have ye sold [04376] yourselves, and for your transgressions [06588] is your mother [0517] put away [07971].
4 For the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall abide [03427] many [07227] days [03117] without a king [04428], and without a prince [08269], and without a sacrifice [02077], and without an image [04676], and without an ephod [0646], and without teraphim [08655]:
13 And she shall put [05493] the raiment [08071] of her captivity [07628] from off her, and shall remain [03427] in thine house [01004], and bewail [01058] her father [01] and her mother [0517] a full [03117] month [03391]: and after [0310] that thou shalt go [0935] in unto her, and be her husband [01166], and she shall be thy wife [0802].
2 Lift up [05375] thine eyes [05869] unto the high places [08205], and see [07200] where [0375] thou hast not been lien [07693] [07901] with. In the ways [01870] hast thou sat [03427] for them, as the Arabian [06163] in the wilderness [04057]; and thou hast polluted [02610] the land [0776] with thy whoredoms [02184] and with thy wickedness [07451].
14 And he said [0559] unto the elders [02205], Tarry [03427] ye here [02088] for us, until we come again [07725] unto you: and, behold, Aaron [0175] and Hur [02354] are with you: if any [04310] man [01167] have any matters [01697] to do [01167], let him come [05066] unto them.
13 And she shall put [05493] the raiment [08071] of her captivity [07628] from off her, and shall remain [03427] in thine house [01004], and bewail [01058] her father [01] and her mother [0517] a full [03117] month [03391]: and after [0310] that thou shalt go [0935] in unto her, and be her husband [01166], and she shall be thy wife [0802].
5 Afterward [0310] shall the children [01121] of Israel [03478] return [07725], and seek [01245] the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and David [01732] their king [04428]; and shall fear [06342] the LORD [03068] and his goodness [02898] in the latter [0319] days [03117].
4 For the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall abide [03427] many [07227] days [03117] without a king [04428], and without a prince [08269], and without a sacrifice [02077], and without an image [04676], and without an ephod [0646], and without teraphim [08655]:
4 For the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall abide [03427] many [07227] days [03117] without a king [04428], and without a prince [08269], and without a sacrifice [02077], and without an image [04676], and without an ephod [0646], and without teraphim [08655]: