Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, 1 like an oven heated by the baker, 1 who ceases to stir the fire 1 from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. 1
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3With their evil they make the king glad, 1 and by their lies the officials. 1
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:7Why should I pardon these people? 1 Your sons have abandoned me and have made oaths by what are not gods. 1 I fed them fully, but they committed adultery and walked in great numbers to the houses of prostitutes. 1
Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1
Hosea 4:12My people consult their wooden idols, 1 and their walking sticks give them prophecies. 1 For a mind of promiscuity has misled them, 1 and they have acted as prostitutes instead of being faithful to their God. 1
James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility against God? So whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8
Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →