Oseas 1:3

3 Así que Oseas se casó con Gomer, hija de Diblaim. Ella quedó embarazada y le dio un hijo.

Oseas 1:3 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 1:3

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" ^F12; 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" ^F13; 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.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 A rad. (rmg) "perfecit, desiit", Gussetius.
F13 Vox (Mylbd) "significat massas ficuum compressarum et siccatarum", Rivetus, Tarnovius.

Oseas 1:3 In-Context

1 El Señor
le dio este mensaje a Oseas, hijo de Beeri, durante los años en que Uzías, Jotam, Acaz y Ezequías eran reyes de Judá, y Jeroboam II, hijo de Yoás,
era rey de Israel.

2 La esposa y los hijos de Oseas
Cuando el Señor
le habló por primera vez a Israel por medio de Oseas, le dijo al profeta: «Ve y cásate con una prostituta,
de modo que algunos de los hijos de ella sean concebidos en prostitución. Esto ilustrará cómo Israel se ha comportado como una prostituta, al volverse en contra del Señor
y al rendir culto a otros dioses».

3 Así que Oseas se casó con Gomer, hija de Diblaim. Ella quedó embarazada y le dio un hijo.

4 Entonces el Señor
dijo: «Ponle al niño por nombre Jezreel, porque estoy a punto de castigar a la dinastía del rey Jehú para vengar los asesinatos que cometió en Jezreel. De hecho, pondré fin a la independencia de Israel

5 y acabaré con su poderío militar en el valle de Jezreel».