![]() Each successive child measured the growing rift between husband and wife. Hadn’t God warned him and instructed him to “go, take to yourself an adulterous wife and children of unfaithfulness, because the land is guilty of the vilest adultery in departing from the Lord”? He had named his children “Jezreel” (God Scatters), “Lo-Ruhamah” (Not Loved), and “Lo-Ammi” (Not My People). For Gomer had squandered his gifts, mocked his tenderness, and allowed herself to be seduced by other lovers. His pain was the worse for loving her so well. He had meant to guard his heart he had never intended to give himself so completely. He felt grief and fury like a storm breaking inside him. Hosea, the man who would steer the nation with his prophecies, couldn’t even control his own wife. By noon tomorrow, the news of her betrayal would fill every gossip-hungry soul in town like swill in a pig’s belly. He didn’t want to go inside yet, to listen to the absence of her chatter, to lie down on the empty bed. But, then, she wouldn’t be alone, would she? It was too late for a woman to be walking the streets alone. Other than a stray dog curled in a knot against the wall of a neighboring house, he saw nothing. His limbs felt stiff and cold, despite the desert heat that still warmed the narrow street. The man stood at the door, craning his neck and peering through the half-light. Her joy: That her husband continued to love her despite her unfaithfulness. Her sorrow: To have become the symbol of spiritual adultery-a picture of Israel’s unfaithfulness to God. The Syrophoenician Woman: Approaching God with Persistency and Boldness (Naomi Zacharias)ĭesigned for use with the Twelve Women of the Bible DVD (9780310691624), sold separately.Her character: Though a married woman, she carried on numerous love affairs, crediting her lovers for the gifts her husband had given her. ![]()
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