Women of Grace 2005-06
Women of the Bible

 Homework for Lesson Fourteen
Gomer

Your homework will help sharpen your understanding of the Bible and is a ministry to others as you share your answers in your small group. Prayerfully think through each answer with the expectation of sharing with others what God has taught you.

Memory Work: Proverbs 31:23

1. Scan the following: Hosea 1-14; Jeremiah 3:6-10; Ezekiel 16:15-34; Leviticus19:29-32; 20:1-9; Deuteronomy 23:17, 18

(a) What repeated theme do you see?



 

(b) What was the circumstance of Gomer's marriage to Hosea? Hosea 1: 1-2






 

2. List the names of Gomer's children and the meaning of each. Hosea 1:3-9










 

3. (a) What do you think was the reason for Gomer's whoredom before she married?





 

(b) Why do you think she returned to whoredom after Hosea married her?





 

(c) How do you think Gomer felt when Hosea loved her again and brought her back from her adultery?







 

4. (a) Using the Scriptures from question 1, what did Gomer and the nation of Israel hope to gain by their whoredoms?






 

(b) What did they lose?





 

(c) How did God restore His people to Himself?
Hosea 2:22, 23; Romans 9:22-26; I Peter 2:9, 10







 

5. (a) How was Gomer's relationship with Hosea like Israel's relationship with God?






 

(b) How is your relationship with God like Israel's relationship with Him?







 

6. After what lovers do you chase that you will now forsake?










 

7. What truths have you learned from the life of Gomer or of God's grace to the underserved?











 

8. What valley of trouble are you in today? (Put in the form of a prayer to share with your prayer partner)









 

9. What resources has God given you that make that valley a door of hope?