Hosea 7:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Hosea 7:7

None calleth unto God. The calamities and miseries which befell Israel were in themselves awful, but perhaps the most terrible circumstance connected with them was this: they failed to lead the people to a better mind, to true repentance, to sincere supplication unto God. I. THE HAND THAT AFFLICTS ALONE CAN HEAL . Chastisement is necessary in the economy of Divine government; yet our heavenly Father chastens, not for his pleasure, but for our profit. He is more ready to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:7

They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges - Plans of sin, sooner or later, through God’s overruling providence, bound back upon their authors. The wisdom of God’s justice and of His government shows itself the more, in that, without any apparent agency of His own, the sin is guided by Him through all the intricate mazes of human passion, malice, and cunning, back to the sinner’s bosom. Jeroboam, and the kings who followed him, had corrupted the people, in order to establish... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hosea 7:5-7

Hosea 7:5-7. 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 stretched out his hand with scorners Deriders of God and man. Some recent and notorious act of contempt to God, or to his prophets, or to public justice, is here alluded to. “Those,” says Bishop Horsley, “who in their cups made a jest of the true religion, and derided the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7

Treachery, robbery and murder (6:7-7:7)Priests and common citizens alike are guilty of treachery, robbery and murder. Hosea again names the places where they have practised these evils. He announces that the people, along with all their religious ceremonies and sacrifices, are repulsive to God (7-10). God wants to give blessings to his people, but they prevent such blessings because they refuse to repent. They prefer to continue with their cheating, stealing and violence (11-7:2).The death of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hosea 7:7

all their kings, &c. Compare Hosea 8:4 . Of the two houses of Omri and Jehu: Nadab, Zimri, Tibni, Jehoram, Zachariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, and Pekah were all slain by their successors, or others. there is. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read "and there". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hosea 7:7

"They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me."This is the third usage of the oven metaphor, as follows: (1) They are like the banked fire ready to flare up at the slightest chance, Hosea 7:4. (2) They were an oven fire, waiting while preparations are being completed, using the occasion to plan new evil, Hosea 7:6. (3) They "are hot as an oven"; their evil passions are a vicious, burning lust. Commenting on this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hosea 7:7

Hosea 7:7. They are all hot as an oven— The prophet here describes the punishment of their crimes, keeping up the similitude under which he represented those crimes; as much as to say, "Because they have grown hot with wine, &c. like an oven, they shall be burned like an oven with the same fire which they have kindled. In this fire their judges, &c. shall be consumed." See Houbigant. All their kings are fallen— The prophesy looks forward to the fall of the six last kings in perpetual... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hosea 7:7

7. all hot—All burn with eagerness to cause universal disturbance ( :-). devoured their judges—magistrates; as the fire of the oven devours the fuel. all their kings . . . fallen—See on Hosea 7:1. none . . . calleth unto me—Such is their perversity that amid all these national calamities, none seeks help from Me (Isaiah 9:13; Isaiah 64:7). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:1-7

Internal corruption 7:1-7This section focuses on Israel’s domestic sins. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hosea 7:7

All of Israel’s past kings had fallen. All the Israelite kings who followed Jeroboam II suffered assassination except Menahem and Hoshea (cf. 2 Kings 17:3-6). The Israelites murdered their leaders leaving themselves like a ship without a rudder. A continuing dynasty, as existed in Judah, never succeeded in the North. The reason was that none of the Israelites sought the Lord. Since this prophecy is undated we do not know when Hosea gave it, but it must have been during the tumultuous times when... read more

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