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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hosea 3:3 - 3:3
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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.