Their baker] Perhaps we should follow the LXX, etc., and read, 'their anger.' Their anger sleeping would mean that they manage to control it, until it can work with effect. If we keep the reading 'baker,' it will mean that just as the baker sleeps when once he has made up his fire and heated his oven ready for use in the morning, so they wait for the morning to execute their purpose.
FOR THEY HAVE MADE READY THEIR HEART LIKE AN OVEN - He gives the reason old their bursting out into open mischief; it was ever stored up within. They “made ready,” (literally, “brought near”) “their h...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
WICKEDNESS ENCOURAGED IN HIGH PLACES. King and princes gladly share in the prevailing wickedness adultery, drunkenness and the court itself is the scene of treachery, conspiracy, and assassinations. T...
THEY, &C. Like the baker in Hosea 7:4. THEIR BAKER SLEEPETH. their anger smoketh: reading _ye'shan 'apphem_ instead of _yashen 'ophehem._ Owing to the similarity in pronunciation and in the ancient fo...
_For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait_ Better, with Ewald, -Yea, almost like the oven have they made their heart in their intrigue", if there were only sufficient...
The highest personages are not too refined for the most sensual pleasures. A consuming passion inflames them as if with the heat of a furnace. Their way of celebrating a royal commemoration is to indu...
_ISRAEL CONTINUED IN INIQUITY -- HOSEA 7:1-6:_ God attempted to heal Israel through corrective discipline. To His sorrow God discovered that Israel only became worse and worse. Their sin was so eviden...
FOR THEY HAVE MADE READY, &C.— _Their heart burns as an oven; their fury smoketh forth all the night; and in the morn it burneth as a flame of fire._ Houbigant....
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:1-7 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief ente...
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. FOR THEY HAVE MADE READY THEIR HEART - r...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
Render, _Yea, they draw nigh together. Like an oven in their heart with their wiles. Their baker sleepeth all the night,_ &c. The metaphor of Hosea 7:4 is resumed. The baker, having left his dough to...
כִּֽי ־קֵרְב֧וּ כַ † תַּנּ֛וּר לִבָּ֖ם בְּ...
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
4. WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Hosea 7:3 There follows now a very difficult passage. The text is corrupt, and we have no means of determining what precise events are intended. The drift of meaning, ho...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
_Them. Jeroboam seduces the subjects of the house of David, by indulging the passions of the great and small. He may then sleep; the poison gains ground. (Calmet) --- But soon his own family will feel...
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
Here the Prophet says, that the Israelites did secretly, and by hidden means, prepare their hearts for deeds of evil; and he takes up nearly the same similitude as he did a little while before, though...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
FOR THEY HAVE MADE READY THEIR HEART LIKE AN OVEN, WHILES THEY LIE IN WAIT,.... The prince, people, and scorners before mentioned, being heated with wine, and their lust enraged, they were ready for a...
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. Ver. 6. _For they have made ready their he...
_In the day of our king_ Probably the anniversary of his birth, or coronation; _the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine_ Or, _when the princes began to be hot with wine_, (so Newcome,) _he...
For they have made ready their heart like an oven whiles they lie in wait, that is, as men bring fuel for an oven, so they have brought their hearts into their cunning; THEIR BAKER SLEEPETH ALL THE NI...
THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
MADE READY: Or, applied...
1-7 A practical disbelief of God's government was at the bottom of all israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins appear on every side of them. Their hearts were i...
FOR; surely. THEY; those luxurious and drinking princes, HOSEA 7:5. HAVE MADE READY THEIR HEART LIKE AN OVEN; do keep close some fire of ambition, revenge, or covetousness, like as a baker keeps a hot...
Hosea 7:6 prepare H7126 (H8765) heart H3820 oven H8574 wait H693 (H8800) baker H644 (H8802) sleeps...
‘For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait, Their baker sleeps all the night, In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.' Meanwhile the people, sickened at the behav...
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KINGS ARE BOTH ALIKE, BURNING HOT IN THEIR SINS, IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH THEIR KINGS ARE ASSASSINATED ONE AFTER THE OTHER (HOSEA 7:3). Hosea now likens the people of Israel in the...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:4. OVEN] “In this passionate career the nation resembled a furnace which a baker heats in the evening and leaves burning all night while the dough is leavening, and then caus...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. 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 comes in...
1 Samuel 19:11; 2 Samuel 13:28; 2 Samuel 13:29; Hosea 7:4; Hosea 7:7;
They — Those luxurious and drinking princes. Like an oven — Hot with ambition, revenge, or covetousness. Lie in wait — Against the life or estate of some of their subjects. As the baker, having kindle...