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They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/7.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They <i>are</i> all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, <i>who</i> ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“They <i>are</i> all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring <i>the fire</i> after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker, Who stops stoking <i>the fire</i> From <i>the time</i> the dough is kneaded until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />They are all adulterers Like an oven heated by the baker, Who ceases to stir up <i>the fire</i> From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up <i>the fire</i> From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; Like the heat of an oven When the baker ceases to stir <i>the fire,</i> [their passion smolders] From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Everyone burns with desire--they are like coals in an oven, ready to burst into flames. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker doesn't have to fan its flames when he makes bread.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />All of them are adulterers— they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />All of them [are] adulterers, "" Like a burning oven of a baker, "" He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; like an oven heating up before baking, the city rested a little before the leaven was mixed in, until the whole was leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker does not need to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Their rulers are all adulterers, their passion is as an oven heated to bake bread, the baker who kneads the dough ceases from going to the city, and waits until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />All their Rulers are adulterers as an oven burning for baking; one desists from the city; he kneads and kneads until it is leavened<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, As an oven heated by the baker, Who ceaseth to stir From the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=982" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/7.htm">Ephraim's Iniquity</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kul·lām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">They are all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5003.htm" title="5003: mə·nā·’ă·p̄îm (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mp) -- To commit adultery. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to apostatize.">adulterers,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3644.htm" title="3644: kə·mōw (Prep) -- Like, as, when. Or kamow; a form of the prefix k-, but used separately; as, thus, so.">like</a> <a href="/hebrew/8574.htm" title="8574: ṯan·nūr (N-cs) -- (portable) stove, firepot. From niyr; a fire-pot.">an oven</a> <a href="/hebrew/1197.htm" title="1197: bō·‘ê·rāh (V-Qal-Prtcpl-fs) -- To kindle, consume, to be, brutish. A primitive root; to kindle, i.e. Consume; also to be(-come) brutish.">heated</a> <a href="/hebrew/644.htm" title="644: mê·’ō·p̄eh (Prep-m:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To bake. A primitive root; to cook, especially to bake.">by a baker</a> <a href="/hebrew/7673.htm" title="7673: yiš·bō·wṯ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To repose, desist from exertion. A primitive root; to repose, i.e. Desist from exertion; used in many implied relations.">who needs not</a> <a href="/hebrew/5782.htm" title="5782: mê·‘îr (V-Hifil-Prtcpl-ms) -- To rouse oneself, awake. A primitive root; to wake.">stoke the fire</a> <a href="/hebrew/3888.htm" title="3888: mil·lūš (Prep-m:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To knead. A primitive root; to knead.">from the kneading</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/2556.htm" title="2556: ḥum·ṣā·ṯōw (V-Qal-Inf:: 3ms) -- To be pungent, in taste, in color. A primitive root; to be pungent; i.e. In taste, in color.">the rising</a> <a href="/hebrew/1217.htm" title="1217: bā·ṣêq (N-ms) -- Dough (for cooking). From batseq; dough.">of the dough.</a> </span><span class="reftext">5</span>The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/9-2.htm">Jeremiah 9:2</a></span><br />If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Isaiah 1:4</a></span><br />Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/22-18.htm">Ezekiel 22:18-22</a></span><br />“Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver. / Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem. / Just as one gathers silver, copper, iron, lead, and tin into the furnace to melt with a fiery blast, so I will gather you in My anger and wrath, leave you there, and melt you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/78-8.htm">Psalm 78:8</a></span><br />Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Jeremiah 5:7-9</a></span><br />“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. / They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-3.htm">Isaiah 57:3-5</a></span><br />“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes! / Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit, / who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30-34</a></span><br />How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute! / But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. / You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/6-28.htm">Jeremiah 6:28-30</a></span><br />All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt. / The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged. / They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/48-8.htm">Isaiah 48:8</a></span><br />You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-2.htm">Malachi 3:2-3</a></span><br />But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. / And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/16-4.htm">Matthew 16:4</a></span><br />A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21-24</a></span><br />For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-4.htm">2 Timothy 3:4-5</a></span><br />traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, / having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-39.htm">Matthew 12:39</a></span><br />Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-6.htm">1 Corinthians 5:6-8</a></span><br />Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? / Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.</p><p class="hdg">are all.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/4-2.htm">Hosea 4:2,12</a></b></br> By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Jeremiah 5:7,8</a></b></br> How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by <i>them that are</i> no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/9-2.htm">Jeremiah 9:2</a></b></br> Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they <i>be</i> all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.</p><p class="hdg">as.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Hosea 7:6,7</a></b></br> For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire… </p><p class="hdg">who ceaseth, etc.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/23-10.htm">Adulterers</a> <a href="/genesis/41-13.htm">Baker</a> <a href="/genesis/41-13.htm">Bread-Maker</a> <a href="/daniel/7-11.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">Ceases</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm">Ceaseth</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-30.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/daniel/10-6.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/daniel/3-22.htm">Heated</a> <a href="/2_samuel/13-8.htm">Kneaded</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-17.htm">Kneading</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-4.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/daniel/2-43.htm">Mixed</a> <a href="/hosea/2-3.htm">Need</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-20.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/jeremiah/43-9.htm">Paste</a> <a href="/daniel/11-17.htm">Practise</a> <a href="/daniel/2-21.htm">Raising</a> <a href="/hosea/6-3.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/daniel/11-25.htm">Stir</a> <a href="/daniel/7-2.htm">Stirring</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-15.htm">Stops</a> <a href="/hosea/3-4.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/malachi/3-5.htm">Adulterers</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Baker</a> <a href="/genesis/40-1.htm">Bread-Maker</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/acts/6-13.htm">Ceases</a> <a href="/jonah/1-15.htm">Ceaseth</a> <a href="/matthew/13-33.htm">Dough</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/hosea/7-7.htm">Heated</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-24.htm">Kneaded</a> <a href="/john/9-6.htm">Kneading</a> <a href="/amos/4-5.htm">Leavened</a> <a href="/hosea/7-8.htm">Mixed</a> <a href="/amos/4-1.htm">Need</a> <a href="/hosea/7-6.htm">Oven</a> <a href="/exodus/12-39.htm">Paste</a> <a href="/micah/2-1.htm">Practise</a> <a href="/amos/6-14.htm">Raising</a> <a href="/amos/9-5.htm">Rises</a> <a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Stir</a> <a href="/joel/3-7.htm">Stirring</a> <a href="/acts/6-13.htm">Stops</a> <a href="/hosea/8-10.htm">Time</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm">A reproof of manifold sins.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm">God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hosea/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hosea/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>They are all adulterers</b><br>This phrase highlights the pervasive unfaithfulness among the people of Israel. In the biblical context, adultery often symbolizes spiritual unfaithfulness to God, as seen in <a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8-9</a> and <a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm">Ezekiel 16:32</a>. The Israelites were engaging in idolatry, which is considered spiritual adultery. This reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, akin to a marriage, where Israel's worship of other gods is seen as infidelity.<p><b>like an oven heated by a baker</b><br>The imagery of an oven suggests intense, uncontrolled passion and sin. In ancient times, ovens were essential for daily life, and a baker's skill was crucial for maintaining the right temperature. This metaphor indicates that the people's sinful desires are burning intensely, much like an oven that is ready for baking. The comparison to a baker suggests a deliberate and skilled preparation for sin, indicating premeditated wrongdoing.<p><b>who needs not stoke the fire</b><br>This part of the verse implies that the sinful passions of the people are self-sustaining. Just as a well-heated oven does not require constant attention to maintain its heat, the people's sinful nature is so ingrained that it continues without external provocation. This reflects the depth of their moral decay and the habitual nature of their sin, as seen in <a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28-32</a>, where Paul describes a society given over to a depraved mind.<p><b>from the kneading to the rising of the dough</b><br>This phrase indicates a period of time, suggesting that the people's sinful desires are constant and enduring. The process from kneading to rising involves waiting and preparation, symbolizing how the people's hearts are continually set on sin. This can be connected to <a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a>, where desire, when fully grown, gives birth to sin. The imagery of bread-making, a daily and essential task, underscores the normalcy and acceptance of sin in their lives.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/h/hosea.htm">Hosea</a></b><br>A prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the Israelites.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, often referred to in Hosea as Ephraim, which had turned away from God and was engaging in idolatry and immorality.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/adulterers.htm">Adulterers</a></b><br>Symbolically refers to the Israelites who were unfaithful to God by worshiping other gods and engaging in sinful practices.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/baker.htm">Baker</a></b><br>Represents those who are responsible for maintaining spiritual fervor but have neglected their duties, allowing sin to grow unchecked.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/o/oven.htm">Oven</a></b><br>Symbolizes the unchecked passion and sinfulness of the people, which is likened to a fire that is not stirred and thus grows out of control.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_unfaithfulness.htm">Spiritual Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Just as Israel was unfaithful to God, Christians today must guard against spiritual adultery by remaining devoted to Christ and avoiding idolatry in any form.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/unchecked_sin.htm">Unchecked Sin</a></b><br>Like the oven that is not stirred, sin can grow and consume us if we do not actively resist and repent. Regular self-examination and confession are crucial.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/role_of_spiritual_leaders.htm">Role of Spiritual Leaders</a></b><br>The baker's negligence serves as a warning to spiritual leaders to diligently tend to their flocks, ensuring that they are spiritually nourished and protected from sin.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/i/influence_of_sin.htm">Influence of Sin</a></b><br>Sin, like leaven, can spread quickly and affect the whole community. Believers must be vigilant in addressing sin both personally and corporately.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_repentance.htm">God's Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's desire is for His people to return to Him. This call to repentance is still relevant for believers today.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_yeast_change_dough_like_god's_realm.htm">How does yeast transform dough like God's kingdom?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_faith_lead_to_prosperity.htm">How can we show mercy to others daily?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_3_1_align_with_scripture.htm">How can we reconcile the command in Hosea 3:1 for a prophet to marry a prostitute with moral standards presented elsewhere in Scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_hosea_1_4-9_conflict_with_god's_mercy.htm">Does the symbolic naming in Hosea 1:4-9 conflict with the broader biblical emphasis on God's mercy and redemption?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hosea/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) Render, <span class= "ital">ceaseth heating from the kneading of the dough till its leavening.</span> The baker is unremitting in his exertions to keep up the heat of the oven, the smouldering fire being fed on camel's dung and the like fuel, except when he is obliged to occupy himself with preparing the dough for baking--an apt image of the incessant burning rage of lust and violence.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - The difficulty of the section including vers. 4-7 has occasioned considerable difference of exposition; it may not, therefore, be amiss to supplement the foregoing observations. <p><span class="Text_Heading">1.</span> Aben Ezra accounts for <span class="hebrew">בערה</span> being accented as <span class="accented">milel</span> <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> on the ground that, though a feminine formation, it is really masculine (to agree with <span class="hebrew">תניו</span>), like <span class="hebrew">נחלה</span> and <span class="hebrew">לילה</span>, both of which, though feminine in form, are notwithstanding of the masculine gender. Abarbanel, who is followed by Wunsche, <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> takes <span class="hebrew">בֹּעָרְה</span> as a participle feminine for <span class="hebrew">בֹּעָרהָ</span> or <span class="hebrew">בֹּעֶרָח</span>, which is justified by the circumstance that the names of fire and of what is connected therewith are feminine in the Semitic, so that <span class="hebrew">חנור</span> is feminine. . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/7-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They are all</span><br /><span class="heb">כֻּלָּם֙</span> <span class="translit">(kul·lām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">adulterers,</span><br /><span class="heb">מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(mə·nā·’ă·p̄îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5003.htm">Strong's 5003: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to apostatize</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּמ֣וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(kə·mōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3644.htm">Strong's 3644: </a> </span><span class="str2">Like, as, when</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an oven</span><br /><span class="heb">תַנּ֔וּר</span> <span class="translit">(ṯan·nūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8574.htm">Strong's 8574: </a> </span><span class="str2">(portable) stove, firepot</span><br /><br /><span class="word">heated</span><br /><span class="heb">בֹּעֵ֖רָה</span> <span class="translit">(bō·‘ê·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1197.htm">Strong's 1197: </a> </span><span class="str2">To kindle, consume, to be, brutish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by a baker</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(mê·’ō·p̄eh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_644.htm">Strong's 644: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cook, to bake</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who needs not</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(yiš·bō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7673.htm">Strong's 7673: </a> </span><span class="str2">To repose, desist from exertion</span><br /><br /><span class="word">stoke the fire</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵעִ֔יר</span> <span class="translit">(mê·‘îr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5782.htm">Strong's 5782: </a> </span><span class="str2">To rouse oneself, awake</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from the kneading</span><br /><span class="heb">מִלּ֥וּשׁ</span> <span class="translit">(mil·lūš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3888.htm">Strong's 3888: </a> </span><span class="str2">To knead</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to</span><br /><span class="heb">עַד־</span> <span class="translit">(‘aḏ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the rising</span><br /><span class="heb">חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥum·ṣā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2556.htm">Strong's 2556: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be pungent, in taste, in color</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the dough.</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּצֵ֖ק</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ṣêq)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1217.htm">Strong's 1217: </a> </span><span class="str2">Dough (for cooking)</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/7-4.htm">Hosea 7:4 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/7-4.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/7-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 7:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/7-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 7:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 7:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>