2So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-5)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 to be left desolate for a long time, and then to return, as the two tribes did. But these are called the children of Israel , which was the ten tribes, and therefore it is more probable that of them ...
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