Hosea 1:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. ”

Hosea 1:3 - Albert 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-Merci...
Hosea 1:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Hosea 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 st...
Hosea 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Gomer . completion (i.e. the filling up the measure of idolatry). Diblaim . a double cake of figs, symbolical of sensual pleasure.
Hosea 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Hosea 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. He went and took Gomer - All this appears to be a real transaction, though having a typical meaning. If he took...
Hosea 1:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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.
Hosea 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Hosea 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea's Marriage and its Lessons 1. A general heading. Hosea 1:2-9 . The prophet's marriage with Gomer, the birth of her three children, and the symbolical meaning attached to them. Hosea 1:1...
Hosea 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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.
Hosea 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL WIFE Hosea 1:1-11 ; Hosea 2:1-23 ; Hosea 3:1-5 IT has often been remarked that, unlike the first Doomster of Israel, Israel's first Evangelist was one of themselves,...
Hosea 1:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 re...
Hosea 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 h...
Hosea 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 inte...
Hosea 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 lik...
Hosea 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 praecipi...
Hosea 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 t...
Hosea 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Marriage; Threatenings against Israel; Intimation of Mercy to Judah. B. C. 768. ...
Hosea 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Hosea 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Hosea 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Hosea 1:3 . Gom.] The name of a nation ( Genesis 10:2-3 ); symbolically G. = completion; i.e. completely given up to whoredom. Dib .] = daughter of grape-cakes, indicating pleas...
Hosea 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 fathe...
Hosea 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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. T...
Hosea 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel to be Rejected on Account of its Idolatry
Hosea 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Hosea 1:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 1:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 1:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 1:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 1:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 1:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 1:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 1:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge