So he went and took (d) Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.
(d) Gomer signifies a consumption or corruption, and rotten clusters of figs, declaring that they were all corrupt like rotten figs.
Verse Hosea 1:3. _HE WENT AND TOOK GOMER_] All this appears to be a real transaction, though having a typical meaning. If he took an _Israelite_, he must necessarily have taken an _idolatress_; one wh...
SO HE WENT - He did not demur, nor excuse himself, as did even Moses Exodus 4:18, or Jeremiah Jeremiah 1:6, or Peter Acts 10:4, and were rebuked for it, although mercifully by the All-Merciful. Hosea,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL AS THE ADULTEROUS WIFE AND HER FUTURE RECEPTION AND RESTORATION CHAPTER 1 Israel's Sin and Promise of Restoration _ 1. The introduction (Hosea 1...
HOSEA'S MARRIAGE: A PARABLE OF YAHWEH'S RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. The prophet receives a Divine command to take (_i.e._ marry) a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom. The reason given for this start...
GOMER. completion (i.e. the filling up the measure of idolatry). DIBLAIM. a double cake of figs, symbolical of sensual pleasure....
_Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim_ Various attempts have been made to extract a meaning from these names, which by its appropriateness to the circumstances of the Israelites might favour the view that t...
_AN INNOCENT HUSBAND AND AN IMMORAL WIFE -- HOSEA 1:1-3:_ Hosea spoke with the authority of God. The book begins powerfully with the words, "The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea." This is no...
SO HE WENT— He said not, _This is a hard saying, who can hear it?_ He does not reason, but comply: he does not dispute, but obey....
LOVE REBUFFED GOMER'S INGRATITUDESPIRIT OF HARLOTRY TEXT: Hosea 1:1-8 1 The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah...
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. GOMER ... DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM - symbolical names: literally, 'Completion, daughter of grape-cakes;' the dual...
HOSEA'S MARRIAGE AND ITS LESSONS 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2. The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. HOSEA 1:1 TO HOSEA 2...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ INTRODUCTION Hosea wrote in the middle of the eighth century BC (Before Christ). He gave most of his messages to Israel, the country in...
GOMER THE DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM. — Gomer means complete, or perfect, but whether in external beauty or in wickedness of character is not easy to determine....
וַ יֵּ֨לֶךְ֙ וַ יִּקַּ֔ח אֶת ־גֹּ֖מֶר בַּת
THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1; Hosea 2:1; Hosea 3:1 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel, Israel's first Evangelist was one of themselves, a native and citi...
GOD GATHERS THE OUTCAST Hosea 1:1-11 The story of Hosea is a pathetic one. He felt impressed that it was his duty to take as wife one whose earlier life had been unchaste. From this marriage resulted...
The statement with which this prophecy opens, "When the Lord spake at the first," is a declaration by Hosea long after the events. Looking back, he understood that the impulse which resulted in the he...
Some have thought, that what is here said of Hosea, was in vision, and not in reality. But others have deemed it to be literally as is here stated. In either sense, the doctrine is the same. God inten...
The prophecy of Hosea naturally divides itself into two principal divisions with minor sections. The first consists of Hosea 1:1-11; Hosea 2:1-23; Hosea 3:1-5; the second, of the rest of the book. Wit...
Introduction I. INTRODUCTION A. We have finished the book of Daniel and today we begin the first book in what is classified as "The Minor Prophets." 1. The classification is really a little unfair...
We said in yesterday’s Lecture, that God ordered his Prophet to take a wife of whoredoms, but that this was not actually done; for what other effect could it have had, but to render the Prophet contem...
The first three Chapter s compose the first part, or the revelations of God's purposes with respect to Israel. From the outset Israel is treated as being in a state of rebellion against God The prophe...
SO HE WENT AND TOOK GOMER THE DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM,.... In the course of prophesying he made mention of this person, who was a notorious common strumpet; and suggested hereby that they were just like h...
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. Ver. 3. _So he went_] He said not, "This is a hard saying, who can hear it?" John 6:60. _Dura mihi praecipit, e...
_So he went and took Gomer_, &c. The word _Gomer_ signifies _failing_, or _consuming_, (see Psalms 12:1,) so that the very name of the harlot, whom Hosea took, was symbolical, signifying that the king...
ISRAEL TO BE REJECTED ON ACCOUNT OF ITS IDOLATRY...
So he, the prophet, WENT AND TOOK GOMER, THE DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM, whose very name was descriptive of the life in which she delighted; WHICH CONCEIVED AND BARE HIM A SON....
1-7 Israel was prosperous, yet then Hosea boldly tells them of their sins, and foretells their destruction. Men are not to be flattered in sinful ways because they prosper in the world; nor will it l...
So he went and took Gomer; as commanded, so he did, whether you take it parabolically or literally. If you take it literally, this Gomer will be some known harlot, and perhaps she was famous for her b...
Hosea 1:3 went H3212 (H8799) took H3947 (H8799) Gomer H1586 daughter H1323 Diblaim H1691 conceived H2029 ...
YHWH'S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 3:5)...
‘So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived, and bore him a son.' In obedience to YHWH Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and ‘took her' (married her and had sexua...
YHWH'S STEADFAST LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HER UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM IS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP WITH AN ASSURANCE THAT ONE DAY THERE WILL BE FULL RESTORATION (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 3:5)...
HOSEA'S WIFE AND CHILDREN ARE TO BE A SIGN OF THE UNFAITHFULNESS OF ISRAEL (HOSEA 1:2 TO HOSEA 2:5 A). There is no reason in chapter 1 for seeing Gomer's ‘whoredom' as being anything other than spirit...
CONTENTS: Israel, Jehovah's dishonored wife, repudiated, but to be restored. CHARACTERS: God, Hosea, Uzziah, Hezekiah, Jeroboam, Gomer, Jezreel, Jehu, Lo-ruhamah, Lo-ammi. CONCLUSION: Giving glory to...
Hosea 1:1. _Hosea, the son of Beeri._ The prophets named their parents, not only to distinguish themselves from others of that name, but to mark that they were sons of prophets, or that their fathers...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 1:1 Biographical: Hosea’s Family. The unfaithfulness of Hosea’s wife, Gomer, and her eventual restoration to him, are a parable for the Lord’s relationship to Israel....
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 1:3 Hosea’s wife bears children, and God gives them prophetic names. The text suggests that Hosea was in fact the father of Gomer’s first child (BORE HIM, v. Hosea
CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3. Gom.] The name of a nation (Genesis 10:2); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom. DIB.] = daughter of grape-cakes, indicating pleasure and sen...
EXPOSITION HOSEA 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME UNTO HOSEA, THE SON OF BEERI. The prophets are divided into the former (_rishonim, _Zechariah 1:4) prophets and the later prophets. The writings of...
Now he tells us in the first verse during the time which he did prophesy. So immediately we realize that as he was prophesying, and his prophecy was essentially to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but...
Isaiah 8:1...