Hosea 7:4 BSB — MannaFest

Hosea 7:4

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.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

As an oven heated by the baker - Calmet’s paraphrase on this and the following verses expresses pretty nearly the sense: Hosea makes a twofold comparison of the Israelites; to an oven, and to dough. Jeroboam set fire to his own oven - his kingdom - and put the leaven in his dough; and afterwards went to rest, that the fire might have time to heat his oven, and the leaven to raise his dough, that the false principles which he introduced might infect the whole population.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Their adulterous and idolatrous lust is inflamed as the oven of a baker who has it at such a heat that he ceaseth from heating it only from the time that he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened; he only needs to omit feeding it during the short period of the fermentation of the bread. Compare 2Pe 2:14, "that cannot cease from sin" [HENDERSON].

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֻּלָּם֙	ku.Lam	all of them	H3605 →
מְנָ֣אֲפִ֔ים	me.Na.'a.Fim	[are] adulterers	H5003 →
כְּמ֣וֹ	ke.Mo	like	H3644 →
תַנּ֔וּר	ta.Nur	an oven	H8574 →
בֹּעֵ֖רָה	bo.'E.rah	burning	H1197 →
מֵֽאֹפֶ֑ה	me.'o.Peh	from a baker	H644 →
יִשְׁבּ֣וֹת	yish.Bot	[who] he ceases	H7673 →
מֵעִ֔יר	me.'Ir	stirring up	H5782 →
מִלּ֥וּשׁ	mi.Lush	from kneading	H3888 →
בָּצֵ֖ק	ba.Tzek	[the] dough	H1217 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
חֻמְצָתֽוֹ׃	chum.tza.To	is leavened it	H2556 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
leads to
- 1 John 2:15–16
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- John 15:19
  If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- Matthew 6:24
  No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and…
- Galatians 1:10
  Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Through
Hosea 4:12
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
leads to
- Jeremiah 2:27
  say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
Through
Jeremiah 9:2
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.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:7–8
  “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.
Through
Hosea 4:2
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
leads to
- Hosea 6:9
  Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Hosea

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Hosea