She is the daughter of diblaim, but most people know her for her sexual misconduct. He continues to love them, but they continue to turn to other gods, and they love to eat those raisin cakes. The book of hosea or hosea is a biblical text that forms a part of the jewish bible tanakh, and is included in the section of minor prophets. Some wonder if gomer was already a prostitute when they got married or if she became unfaithful later. Possibly, hosea was the father of only the first son, or none of the children. Hosea was a young preacher in the nation of israel, the northern kingdom, and he was a. However, this blog will show that the passage is often misunderstood and that his wife gomer is unintentionally slandered as unfaithful because of bad interpretations. Often, we do not recognize the derivation of these bible names, but this prophets name would be joseph in english. The words of hosea s prophecy concern the wrath of a spurned husband and the forgiveness of true love.
Hosea is a prophet whom god uses to portray a message of repentance to gods people. Hosea foretells the coming of israels messiah seven hundred years in the future. Nov 01, 20 hoseas marriage is symbolic of gods covenant relationship with israel. We are not told anything else on hosea s life and death. The marital life of hosea and his wife, gomer, provide the rich metaphor which clarifies the themes of the book. Gomer conceived two sons by the name of jezreel and loammi and a daughter by the name of lo ruhamah see section on peculiarities. And the lord said to hosea, go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms.
The people would yell obscenities, and curse them and hosea had to listen to all of this. The story of gomer has been performed across the nation, reaching thousands of people with the message of gods faithfulness and love. Why did god tell hosea to marry gomer the prostitute. First, hosea was directed by god to marry a promiscuous woman of illrepute, and he did so. Hosea continued to love her and eventually bought her back out of slavery.
Hosea and gomer s story is the story of god and israel. Israel has been unfaithful to god through idolatry and oppression of the poor. I love the very ground you trod, and most of all i love your god. Hosea 3 easytoread version erv hosea buys gomer back from slavery. She looked hosea in the face and said, hosea, man of grace, dark harlotry was in my blood, until your love became a flood cascading over my crude life and kept me as your only wife. Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the lord hosea 1. And his name is related to the name joshua, which means salvation. Broken men and women of the bible and what we can learn from them.
Hidden prophets of the bible though referred to as the. Here you will read more about the life of gomer from our bible dictionaries and tools. Unlike the relationship hosea took on with gomer, there is not anything in the text that says hosea actually married her as some have suggested bullock, 105, 107. Some say that hosea married gomer and then god revealed to him that she was a prostitute. The book of hosea is one of the books of the hebrew bible.
The biblical text explains that hosea paid a costly sum for her time, but did not participate in any sexual activity with her. Hosea the prophet bible object lesson l futureflyingsaucers. It is one of those books that asks incredibly difficult questions. Hosea is among those books of ot that are quoted often in the new testament. It is difficult, however, to separate historical facts about the couples domestic problems from the theological message expressed through them. They have been called the minor prophets because they are each short in length, but as we learned in chapter 9, the minor prophets each have a message of major importance.
Really as i prepared the lesson for this meeting of disciples women, i was feeling at a loss for material, being that gomer isnt really. See more ideas about hosea and gomer, bible and book of hosea. Hosea was instructed by god to marry a certain woman and experience with her a domestic life which was a dramatization of the sin and unfaithfulness of israel. Now while the quoted text does not clearly specify that this is the same woman he is to love, the overall context of chapters of hosea demand that this is the same unfaithful wife, gomer. Discover practical insights into the book of hosea. She finds it infuriating and embarrassing to be known as the wife of the prophet hosea, and her eyes begin to cast about for someone she can truly love. Hosea, joel, amos, obadiah middletown bible church. Hosea 1 international childrens bible icb hoseas wife and children. Hosea was a prophet who lived in the northern kingdom of israel. Some believe that god was commanding hosea to marry a woman who.
Gomer was the daughter of diblaim, of whom nothing is known other than that the name is possibly of foreign origin. There is no way of knowing whether gomer was already a common prostitute, a temple prostitute, or if. It is a research tool for publications in various languages produced by jehovahs witnesses. She became the wife of hosea, the godly prophet, and symbolized gods grace in taking out of a world which had whorishly departed from him a church to be. Gomer was his wife, the mother of his three children. Gomer was the wife of hosea and whose marriage suffered from immorality. Hosea parallels his own tragic marriage to his unfaithful wife gomer chapters to that of the covenant between god and israel chapters 414.
The bible recorded that gomer s children were children of adultery and conceived in disgrace. Hosea was called to the ministry of a prophet early in his life, and the book of the bible devoted to his name spans almost the duration of his lifetime. Hosea, to show gods judgment for spiritual whoredom, takes gomer, and has by her jezreel. She was exiled and became a slave but god commanded hosea to buy her back and reconcile with her. Gomer gomer was the wife of the prophet hosea 8th century bc, mentioned in the hebrew bibles book of hosea 1. The prophet hosea was used as a metaphor for the emotion of god toward the children of israel after they had departed from following after god, committing great whoredoms. His wife gomer forsook him and committed adultery with many lovers. Hoseas wife, gomer, bears this label, not necessarily because she is a prostitute but because she is. She finds it infuriating and embarrassing to be known as the wife of the prophet hosea, and her eyes begin to. What you may not know is that there was a reason for all of gomers scandal. Account of hoseas marriage with gomer biographically which is a metaphor for the relationship with yhwh and. The book of hosea stands first in the division of the bible called the book of the twelve in the apocrypha cf. Why god told a prophet to marry a prostitute medium.
Jerome specified that one of the divisions of the jews sacred books was the book of the twelve prophets, which evidently included the book of hosea to fill out the number 12. Hosea 1 american standard version books of the bible. Hosea is one of those books that some people throw out, like jonah, because its just too hard to swallow. Through hosea, the lord tells the story of israels disobedience, his discipline, and his steadfast, faithful love. We also know that he had a wife named gomer, and two sons and a daughter hosea 1. Oct 04, 2012 in the bible, god called this man named hosea to do something that most people believe is absurd. Hosea 1 icb hoseas wife and children bible gateway. In the bible, god called this man named hosea to do something that most people believe is absurd. Gomer committed adultery against hosea, having three children two sons and one daughter through her acts of whoredom i. God tells hosea to redeem, to buy back, gomer and reestablish his marital bonds with her. While the entire second chapter of hoseas prophecy describes jehovahs relationship with his unfaithful wife israel, it is difficult to escape the feeling that it grows out of hoseas relationship with gomer, sandwiched as it is between two chapters that clearly describe that sad and sordid story.
Hosea continues to love his wife, despite her unfaithfulness to him and so his marriage is a picture of gods covenantal love for his people and israels continual unfaithfulness to him. Hosea was commanded to take a wife who would become a prostitute as an example of gods relationship with israel. And that confidence has nothing to do with the worthiness of any of us. However, hosea went and bought her back full price, maybe more, he said you are now twice mine. Gomer in the bible was the unfaithful wife of hosea the prophet. There is no way of knowing whether gomer was already a common prostitute, a temple prostitute, or if she became a prostitute after they were married. Hosea 1 niv the word of the lord that came to hosea bible. This book records the travail of a heartbroken husband, hosea the prophet caused by the continued unfaithfulness of gomer, his wife, which tragic event is used to describe gods great sorrow over his immoral wife, the nation israel. This hebrew term indicates illicit sexual behavior. Apr 07, 2018 hoseas love for a sinful woman was to be a picture of gods love for sinners. If gomer would stop for just one moment and try to read her husbands heart, she would discover that she has broken it more than once. Apr 30, 2020 and children, gomer said with tears, mark this, the miracle of years. Maybe she had responded to the spiritfilled ministry of hosea himself, and he found his heart drawn to her in deep and unselfish love.
My view of the bible is that, aside from the parables jesus told, if the bible says something happened, it happened. Hoseas wife, gomer, leaves him for anotherjust like israel has left god to worship idols. Hosea therefore must have been a contemporary of isaiah, micah and amos. The message of hosea is that we are all as worthy of gods love as hoseas immoral wife, gomer, was worthy of his. Hosea we are currently reading from the book of the prophet hosea at daily mass. We are now on the last part of our journey through the old testament. Then i said to her, you shall stay with me for many days. God is the faithful husband and israel the faithless wife. Adapted from the book of hosea in the bible, we journey with gomer, a harlot lost in her sin until hosea, a prophet of god, offers to marry her and redeem her life from darkness. This is the woman of the bible from whom we are to learn how to be more godly women. The first three chapters use hoseas life to illustrate his prophetic message, as he marries gomer, who is repeatedly unfaithful to him. Have the two buckets in front of you, but use storytelling for the bible event first. In the days of uzziah, jotham, ahaz, and hezekiah, kings of judah, and in the days of jeroboam the son of joash, king of israel.
Yahweh commands hosea to marry a wife of whoredom zenunim 1. Youll find david jeremiahs introduction to the book of hosea on page 11451147 of the jeremiah study bible. Book of hosea, also spelled osee, the first of 12 old testament books that bear the names of the minor prophets, considered as one book, the twelve, in the jewish canon. Oct 12, 2018 yahweh commands hosea to marry a wife of whoredom zenunim 1. The names of each child were given by god to hosea. The first part of hosea records the tragic story of the prophets unhappy marital experiences. Their life together was an enacted prophecy pointing to the pain god experiences over our sin and the love he feels for us despite it. They worshiped idols and lived lives that did not honor god. I think hoseas heart broke as he saw gomer standing there. The lord used hosea and gomers relationship as an object lesson to show how israel had sinned against him by following other gods and how god remains faithful even when his people dont. In chapters, god gives hosea instructions to marry an unfaithful woman and he obeys. Three children were born to her, but they were not hosea s. Because of gomer s unfaithfulness, the prophet divorced his wife and lived apart from her. The book of hosea should matter to us because it directly addresses the basis for confidence in our relationship with god.
God directed him to take her as his wife, and so it was that gomer, the daughter of diblaim, became the unlikely wife of the budding young preacher. According to the superscription, hosea began his prophetic activity during the reign of jeroboam ii. Hosea faithfully obeyed the lord, taking gomer as his wife. As a promiscuous wife, gomer is much more threatening to the. When god ordered hosea to marry an adulterous woman, he married gomer. Gomer was an unfaithful wife and mother of three children. Hoseas wife, gomer, bears this label, not necessarily because she is a. The story of hosea puzzles even the devout and zealous christian. Hosea s wife, gomer, whom he married in good faith, proved to be an adulterous woman.
Mar 07, 2008 gomer s husband, hosea, was among the last of the prophets who spoke the word of the lord. This woman, gomer, bore him a son, a daughter, then another son. Book of hosea explained discover the 66 books of the bible. Reading these old testament passages requires a bit of sophistication. When we, like gomer, were enslaved, god bought us back. Hosea and gomers story is the story of god and israel. Jun 28, 2019 the words of hoseas prophecy concern the wrath of a spurned husband and the forgiveness of true love. In her sexual activity, gomer is condemned as being like a whore, although she is not a prostitute by profession. To effectively communicate gods feelings toward his departed wife, he requested hosea to take a wife of whoredom hos.
Hosea 17 amp hoseas wife and children bible gateway. What we see as 14 pages of the bible are snippets of a life devoted to the work of god. Through hosea s marriage to gomer, god, also known as yahweh, shows his great love for his people, comparing himself to a husband whose wife has committed adultery. At jehovahs bidding hosea married gomer the daughter of diblaim a prostitute. Hosea obeyed, marrying a woman named gomer, who was unfaithful to him. Study guide for hosea 1 by david guzik blue letter bible.
The incredible scandal of gods perfect love found in hosea. Hosea chapter 3 explained discover the 66 books of the bible. Hosea 17 amplified bible amp hoseas wife and children. The story of hosea and what it teaches about god and holy. Hosea refers to israel under the names of ephraim, its largest tribe, and samaria, its capital.
Book of hosea of the old testament your bible quotes. Gomer gomer was the wife of the prophet hosea 8th century bc, mentioned in the hebrew bible s book of hosea. Gomer gomer was the wife of the prophet hosea 8th century bc, mentioned in the hebrew bibles book of hosea. Gomer doesnt care anymore and begins to engage in relationship after relationship with other men. Why did god tell hosea to marry a prostitute hosea 1. Hoseas ministry is set against the background of a terrible tragic family life which god used as a lesson for the people ch.
God came to the prophet hosea and told him to marry a woman of whoredom. Intro to hosea biblica the international bible society. This was during the time that uzziah, jotham, ahaz and hezekiah were kings of judah. Hosea obeyed by marrying gomer, and the couple had two sons and a daughter verses 38.
Whether hosea himself authored the book that preserves his prophecies is not known. Hosea was a prophet during the reign of four different kings spanning approximately 38 years in the 8 th century b. Shortly after the second child is born, gomer conceives a third child. Do this because it is an example of the lord s love for israel. His unfaithful wife gomer leaves him and finds another man. You may wonder why god would wish such a thing or how hosea felt about the matter. Their life is a love story, but not the fairy tale kind. And gomer was a promiscuous woman the lord told hosea to marry. Hoseas marriage to gomer and the names of their children hosea 1. Hosea was a prophet for approximately 38 years in the 8th century b. Hoseas wife and children 2 when the lord began to speak through hosea, the lord said to him, go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterous wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the lord. This is an authorized web site of jehovahs witnesses.
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