Gomer] Some thinke it was the name of a famous strumpet, which lived in those dayes; Others, that it is a faigned name, to set out the qualities of this people, as well in grace (for it may signifie perfection) as in judgement, for it may be taken for the end or finall extirpation. Diblaim] The reason of this name, which seemes also figurative, is very obscure. Some have held it the name of a wildernesse, Ezekiel 6:14. to shew the Churches wretched beginning, in it own nature, as Son 3:6. Ezekiel 16:7. Others say, it signifies clusters of figs, declaring that they were all corrupt, and like rotten figs. Jeremiah 24:3. hare him a sonne] It seemes that by those three children, born to the Prophet, was figured the ruines of the ten tribes, which were effected at three severall times. First, in the extirpation of Jehu his house by Shallum, 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:12. The other two were by the invasions of the Kings of Assyria, Tiglath-pilneser, 2 Kings 15:19. 1 Chronicles 5:26. and Shalmaneser, 2 King. 17. 3, 6.