Hosea 7:7

7 All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on Me.[a]

Hosea 7:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 7:7

They are all hot as an oven
Eager upon their idolatry, or burning in their unclean desires after other men's wives; or rather raging and furious, hot with anger and wrath against their rulers and governors, breathing out slaughter and death unto them: and have devoured their judges;
that stood in the way of their lusts, reproved them for them, and restrained them from them; or were on the side of the king they conspired against, and were determined to depose and slay: all their kings have fallen;
either into sin, the sin of idolatry particularly, as all from Jeroboam the first did, down to Hoshea the last; or they fell into calamities, or by the sword of one another, as did most of them; so Zachariah by Shallum, Shallum by Menahem, Pekahiah by Pekah, and Pekah by Hoshea; see ( 2 Kings 15:1-38 ) . So the Targum,

``all their kings are slain:''
[there is] none among them that calleth unto me;
either among the kings, when their lives were in danger from conspirators; or none among the people, when their land was in distress, either by civil wars among themselves, or by a foreign enemy; such was their stupidity, and to such a height was irreligion come to among them!

Hosea 7:7 In-Context

5 On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine- there is a conspiracy with traitors.
6 For they-their hearts like an oven- draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread, baked on a griddle.
9 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. These vv. may refer to a king's assassination; Hb obscure.
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