Hosea 7:7

Hosea 7:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
• New International Version (NIV)All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.

Context of Hosea 7:7

5On a day when the king has a feast, the leaders drink too much wine. The king and the leaders join with other people to do foolish things. 6But the leaders are planning to murder the king. Their anger is like the fire of an oven. It burns slowly inside them all through the night. But in the morning the fire is too strong to hold. They are so angry that they kill their rulers. Now all their kings are dead. None of them calls out to me for help.’ 8‘Ephraim's people have mixed themselves with people of other nations. So they have become useless, like bread that is not properly cooked. 9Foreign people have taken away Israel's strength. But the Israelites do not realize what is happening! They have become like an old man with grey hair. But they do not realize how weak they are.

Hosea 7:7 word by word

כֻּלָּ֤ם יֵחַ֙מּוּ֙ כַּתַּנּ֔וּר וְאָכְל֖וּ אֶת־שֹֽׁפְטֵיהֶ֑ם כָּל־מַלְכֵיהֶ֣ם נָפָ֔לוּ אֵין־קֹרֵ֥א בָהֶ֖ם אֵלָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They are all hotחָמַםchâmam · to warmH2552
• as an ovenתַּנּוּרtannûr · ovenH8574
• and have devouredאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• their judgesשָׁפַטshâphaţ · to judgeH8199
• all their kingsמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• are fallenנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
• none among them that callethקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121

Cross-references for Hosea 7:7

• Hosea 8:4My people chose kings to rule them, but they did not ask me about it. They chose people to lead them, but I did not agree. They used their silver and their gold to make idols for themselves. But that will destroy them in the end.
• 1 Kings 15:28Baasha killed King Nadab in the third year that Asa was king of Judah. Baasha became king of Israel instead of Nadab.
• 1 Kings 16:9Zimri was one of Elah's officers. He had authority over half of Elah's chariots. Zimri decided to kill King Elah. One day, Elah was in the home of a man called Arza, an officer who had authority over the king's palace in Tirzah. Elah was drinking too much wine and he became drunk.
• 2 Kings 9:24Then Jehu used his bow to shoot an arrow at Joram. The arrow hit Joram between his shoulders and it went through his heart. He fell over in his chariot and he died.
• 2 Kings 10:7When the letter arrived, these men took hold of the king's sons. They killed all 70 of them. They put their heads in baskets. Then they sent them to Jehu in Jezreel.
• 2 Kings 15:10Jabesh's son Shallum made a plan to kill Zechariah. Shallum murdered Zechariah at Ibleam and he became king himself.
• Hosea 7:10Israel's people are too proud to change. This shows that they are guilty. They still refuse to turn back to me, the Lord their God. In all their troubles, they do not look for my help.
• Hosea 5:15Then I will return to my place. I will leave them to receive their full punishment. When they have suffered enough, they will turn back to me. They will want to serve me again.’
• Job 36:13People who turn away from God are always angry. Even when God punishes them, they do not pray for help.
• Isaiah 9:13The people did not turn back to the Lord Almighty, who had punished them. They did not ask for his help.
• Isaiah 43:22But you Israelites, Jacob's descendants, you did not call to me to help you. You became tired of serving me.
• Isaiah 64:7Nobody prays in your name, or calls out to you to help them. It seems that you have turned away from us. You have left us for our sins to rule us.
• Ezekiel 22:30I looked among the people for a man who would make the land safe. He would make it a good, strong place again, with nothing bad in it. Then I would not destroy it. But I could not find anyone like that.
• Daniel 9:13All this trouble has come to us in the way that Moses wrote in the book of your laws. But we have still not tried to please you, the Lord our God. We have not turned away from our sins. We have not learned your true teaching.

Commentaries on Hosea 7:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7All their kings are fallen - There was a pitiful slaughter among the idolatrous kings of Israel; four of them had fallen in the time of this prophet. Zechariah was slain by Shallum; Shallum, by Menahem; Pekahiah, by Pekah; and Pekah, by Hoshea, 2 Kings 15. All were idolaters, and all came to an untimely death.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7They 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7All their kings fall: The people of Israel killed their kings one after another. They did this to try to save their nation and their lives from the Assyrian army. During these final years, they relied on their own plans and schemes. They never thought to ask the Lord for help, who was their only true source of help.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. all hot--All burn with eagerness to cause universal disturbance (2Ki 15:1-38). devoured their judges--magistrates; as the fire of the oven devours the fuel. all their kings ... fallen--See on Ho 7:1. none ... calleth unto me--Such is their perversity that amid all these national calamities, none seeks help from Me (Is 9:13; 64:7).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 7:7

• Oven
• Prayerlessness
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Troop
• Hosea
• Pekahiah
• Zechariah, Book of
• Bake

Commentaries on Hosea 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings