Cross references
Hosea 3:2
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
- a 15 shekels is approximately 6 ounces or 171 grams of silver.
- b Or a homer and a half of barley; that is, a total of approximately 9.36 bushels or 330 liters (probably about 436 pounds or 198 kilograms of barley); LXX a homer of barley and a wineskin full of wine
Hosea 3:2 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 34:12 (4 votes) and Leviticus 27:16 (3 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 29 to Ezekiel 45.
Which verses does Hosea 3:2 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 34:124 votes
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Leviticus 27:163 votes
If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
- Ezekiel 45:113 votes
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; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
- Genesis 31:412 votes
Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
- Exodus 22:172 votes
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
- 1 Samuel 18:252 votes
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
- Isaiah 5:102 votes
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Which verses point to Hosea 3:2?
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