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This commentary on the Minor Prophets provides pastors, Sunday school teachers, and students of Scripture with doctrinally sound interpretation that emphasizes the practical application of Bible truth. Working from the King James Version, John Phillips not only provides helpful commentary on the text, but also includes detailed outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations. Anyone wanting to...

Hosea did as he was told. We do not know how the young prophet met the woman he married. She was probably attractive and he evidently gave her his heart and loved her. The woman’s name Gomer means “completion” and is parabolic, as are other names in the book of Hosea. We hear echoes in Gomer of the filling up of the measure of Israel’s idolatries and apostasies. Gomer was the daughter of Diblaim, whose name means “a double clump of figs” and suggests sensual
Hosea 1:3–11
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