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NASB | Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hosea 1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. |
Bible Question: can you please tell me more history on Gomer the woman and her mother Diblaim? |
Bible Answer: Here's a bit more commentary by Albert Barnes. I hope it helps. “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” Rom_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” Exo 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” Mat_11:19; who warned the Pharisees, that “the publicans and harlots should (enter unto the kingdom of God before them” Mat_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” Eze 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 Eze 12:3-7; the people asked, “Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?” (Eze_24:19, add Eze_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 Eze 12:2, “with eyes which saw not, and ears which heard not,” they might yet consider such acts as these. In Him, Doc |
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