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Hosea 1:3
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So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Divlayim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So Hosea married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Hosea's son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So he went, & tooke Gomer, ye daughter of Diblaim, which conceiued & bare him a sonne.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.
So Hosea went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So I married Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and we had a son.
So he went and married Gomer the daughter of Divlayim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.
So Hosea married Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Hosea.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who conceived and bore him a son.
So Hosea married a woman named Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. After the birth of their first child, a son,
So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
And he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, who conceived and bore him a son.
So he wente, and toke Gomer ye doughter of Deblaim: which conceaued, and brought forth a sonne.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.
So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
So he went and tooke Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, which conceiued and bare him a sonne.
So he went and toke Gomer the daughter of Deblaim: whiche conceaued and bare him a sonne.
So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Debelaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son.
And he yede, and took Gomer, the douyter of Debelaym; and sche conseyuede, and childide a sone to hym.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she became pregnant, and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who conceived, and bore him a son.
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she became pregnant and gave Hosea a son.
So he married Gomer the daughter of Diblaim and she gave birth to his son.
So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, - and she conceived and bare him a son.
So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceived, and bore him a son.
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Dibla'im, and she conceived and bore him a son.
And he goeth and taketh Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceiveth and beareth to him a son;
Hosea did it. He picked Gomer daughter of Diblaim. She got pregnant and gave him a son.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Isaiah 8:1-3
Reciprocal: Isaiah 8:3 - she conceived Jeremiah 13:2 - according Hosea 3:1 - Go yet
Cross-References
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
God is the Lord , which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Let them praise the name of the Lord : for he commanded, and they were created.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 her; or these were fictitious names he used to represent their case by Gomer signifies both "consummation" and "consumption" l; and this harlot is so called, because of her consummate beauty, and her being completely mistress of all the tricks of one; or, being consummately wicked, a perfect whore, common to all; and because her ruin and destruction, persisting in such practices, were inevitable, and so a fit emblem of the present and future condition of Israel. Diblaim may be considered either as the name of a man, a word of the same form with Ephraim; or of a woman, the mother of Gomer; or else of a place, the wilderness of Diblath, Ezekiel 6:14 and signifies "a cake of dried figs" m; which, in that country, was reckoned delicious eating; and so denotes, either that both the sin and ruin of this people were owing to their luxury, or indulging themselves in carnal pleasures, through the great affluence they were possessed of; or that their original was from a wilderness, and for their sins should be reduced to a desolate state again:
which conceived and bare him a son; whose name, and what he was an emblem of, are declared in the following verse. The Targum is,
"and he went and prophesied over them, that if they returned, it should be forgiven them: but, if not, as fig tree leaves drop off, so should they; but they added, and did evil works.''
l A rad. גמר "perfecit, desiit", Gussetius. m Vox דבלים "significat massas ficuum compressarum et siccatarum", Rivetus, Tarnovius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, accustomed from childhood to obey God and every indication of the will of God, did at once, what he was bidden, however repulsive to natural feeling, and became, thereby, the more an image of the obedience of Christ Jesus, and a pattern to us, at once to believe and obey God’s commands, however little to our minds.
Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim - “Gomer” is completion; “Diblaim,” a double lump of figs; which are a figure of sweetness. These names may mean, that “the sweetness of sins is the parent of destruction;” or that Israel, or mankind had completely forsaken God, and were children of corrupting pleasure.
Holy Scripture relates that all this was done, and tells us the births and names of the children, as real history. As such then, must we receive it. We must not imagine things to be unworthy of God, because they do not commend themselves to us. God does not dispense with the moral law, because the moral law has its source in the mind of God Himself. To dispense with it would be to contradict Himself. But God, who is the absolute Lord of all things which he made, may, at His Sovereign will, dispose of the lives or things which He created. Thus, as Sovereign Judge, He commanded the lives of the Canaanites to be taken away by Israel, as, in His ordinary providence, He has ordained that the magistrate should not bear the sword in vain, but has made him His “minister, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil” Romans 13:4. So, again, He, whose are all things, willed to repay to the Israelites their hard and unjust servitude, by commanding them “to spoil the Egyptian” Exodus 3:22.
He, who created marriage, commanded to Hosea, whom he should marry. The prophet was not defiled, by taking as his lawful wife, at God’s bidding, one defiled, however hard a thing this was. “He who remains good, is not defiled by coming in contact with one evil; but the evil, following his example, is turned into good.” But through his simple obedience, he foreshadowed Him, God the Word, who was called “the friend of publicans and sinners” Matthew 11:19; who warned the Pharisees, that “the publicans and harlots should (enter unto the kingdom of God before them” Matthew 21:31; and who now vouchsafes to espouse, dwell in, and unite Himself with, and so to hallow, our sinful souls. The acts which God enjoined to the prophets, and which to us seem strange, must have had an impressiveness to the people, in proportion to their strangeness. The life of the prophet became a sermon to the people. Sight impresses more than words. The prophet, being in his own person a mirror of obedience, did moreover, by his way of life, reflect to the people some likeness of the future and of things unseen. The expectation of the people was wound up, when they saw their prophets do things at God’s command, which they themselves could not have done. When Ezekiel was bidden to show no sign of mourning, on the sudden death of “the desire of his eyes” Ezekiel 24:16-18, his wife; or when he dug through the wall of his house, and carried forth his household stuff in the twilight, with his face covered Ezekiel 12:3-7; the people asked, “Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?” (Ezekiel 24:19, add Ezekiel 12:10). No words could so express a grief beyond all power of grieving, as Ezekiel’s mute grief for one who was known to be “the desire of his eyes,” yet for whom he was forbidden to show the natural expressions of grief, or to use the received tokens of mourning. God Himself declares the ground of such acts to have been, that, rebellious as the house of Israel was Ezekiel 12:2, “with eyes which saw not, and ears which heard not,” they might yet consider such acts as these.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 who had worshipped the calves of Jeroboam at Dan or at Bethel.
