And I proceeded to purchase her for myself for fifteen silver pieces and a homer measure of barley and a half-homer of barley.

In order to repurchase her, Hosea paid the equivalent of thirty silver shekels, the price of a slave. (Ex. 21:32) True to this picture, in 537 B.C.E. Jehovah repurchased the enslaved exiled Israelites in the land of Babylon. The redemption price he gave to Babylon’s conqueror, the Persian Cyrus the Great, as indicated in Isaiah 43:1-4. (Isa. 44:26 through 45:4) Similarly, in 1919 C.E., Jehovah as Heavenly Husband repurchased the remnant of spiritual Israel from enslavement in Babylon the Great and her worldly political associates. Mercifully Jehovah released the remnant by means of his Greater Cyrus, namely, Jesus Christ, to whom He gave ‘the nations as his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth as his possession.’​—Ps. 2:8, 9.