Hosea 3:2

Another Symbolic Marriage

¹ Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.” ² So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley. ³ Then I said to her, “You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you.”

Shekels of Silver

Pieces Of Silver

Homer

Leviticus 27:16

‘Again, if a man consecrates to the Lord part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”

Exodus 22:17

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Isaiah 5:10

“For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”