Hosea 7:4 meaning and explanation
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.
Hosea 7:4, Berean Standard Bible
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Hosea is speaking to the northern kingdom, called Ephraim, and verse 4 begins a run of oven images that continues through verse 7. The baker needs no one to stoke the fire because the heat holds from kneading to rising, so the people's lust and plotting burn on their own, without outside prompting.
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