Hosea 3:2-3 - So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will live with you."
Gomer was still Hosea's wife. Why did he have to pay for her? Had she gone (back) into prostitution? Had her pimp come to reclaim her? Was she expensive? Had Hosea paid for her the first time too?
It sounds like Hosea didn't expect Gomer to stick around till death did them part. Oi! What must day to day life have been like for the two of them?
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