Hosea 3:1
Then the LORD said to me, "Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer cakes of raisin."
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:19
Then he distributed to all the multitude of Israel, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.

1 Chronicles 16:3
Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

Song of Solomon 2:5
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

Jeremiah 3:20
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel," declares the LORD.

Hosea 1:2
When the LORD first spoke to Hosea, He told him, "Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD."

Hosea 2:5
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.'

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Go yet.

Hosea 1:2, 3
When the LORD first spoke to Hosea, He told him, "Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD." . . .

friend.

Jeremiah 3:1, 20
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers--and you would return to Me?" declares the LORD. . . .

Matthew 26:50
"Friend, " Jesus replied, "do what you came for." Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus, and arrested Him.

according.

Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

Deuteronomy 7:6, 7
For you are a people holy unto the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be as a people for His prized possession, above all peoples on the face of the earth. . . .

Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.

2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, He has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.

Nehemiah 9:18, 19, 31
Even after they had cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, "This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, " and they had committed terrible blasphemies, . . .

Psalm 106:43-46
Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. . . .

Jeremiah 3:1-4, 12-14
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers--and you would return to Me?" declares the LORD. . . .

Jeremiah 31:20
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, surely I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him, " declares the LORD.

Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance--who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? . . .

Zechariah 1:16
Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there My house will be rebuilt, declares the LORD of Hosts, and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem.'

Luke 1:54, 55
He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful, . . .

look.

Psalm 123:2
As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

Isaiah 17:7, 8
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. . . .

Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

love flagons.

Hosea 4:11
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Hosea 7:5
The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Hosea 9:1, 2
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. . . .

Exodus 32:6
So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

Judges 9:27
And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

Amos 2:8
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God, they drink the wine of the sanctioned.

Amos 6:6
You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you fail to grieve over the ruin of Joseph.

1 Corinthians 10:7, 21
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: "The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry." . . .

1 Peter 4:3
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the pagans: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

wine.

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