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Hosea Chapter 7

Hosea
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Hosea

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In this chapter the prophet Hosea warns that God will bring severe judgment on Israel and Judah for their sins, and that their enemies will capture their cities. He reminds the people that God’s love endures, and He will ultimately restore them.

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(1) 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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
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Jeremiah 51:9Matthew 23:37Luke 13:34Luke 19:42Hosea 4:17Hosea 6:8Hosea 8:9Isaiah 28:1Micah 6:16Hosea 8:5Hosea 10:5Ezekiel 16:46

Related verses (shared words)

Jeremiah 44:9Job 34:10Ezekiel 18:20Ezekiel 14:4Ezekiel 33:13Proverbs 1:27

(2) And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
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Deuteronomy 32:29Psalms 50:22Isaiah 1:3Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 44:19Hosea 9:9Psalms 25:7Jeremiah 14:10Amos 8:7Luke 12:2I Corinthians 4:5Numbers 32:23

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Jeremiah 44:9Hosea 9:15Leviticus 26:42

(3) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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Hosea 5:11I Kings 22:6I Kings 22:13Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 9:2Jeremiah 28:1Jeremiah 28:2Jeremiah 28:3Jeremiah 28:4Jeremiah 37:19Amos 7:10Amos 7:11

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Jeremiah 44:9Hosea 9:15Psalms 68:27

(4) 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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Hosea 4:2Hosea 4:12Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:8Jeremiah 9:2James 4:4Hosea 7:6Hosea 7:7

(5) In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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Genesis 40:20Daniel 5:1Daniel 5:2Daniel 5:3Daniel 5:4Matthew 14:6Mark 6:21Proverbs 20:1Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 5:22Isaiah 5:23

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17Luke 5:37Psalms 68:27

(6) 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.
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Hosea 7:4Hosea 7:7I Samuel 19:11I Samuel 19:12I Samuel 19:13I Samuel 19:14I Samuel 19:15II Samuel 13:28II Samuel 13:29Psalms 10:8Psalms 10:9Proverbs 4:16

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Judges 16:2Ruth 3:13Numbers 9:21Judges 9:32Isaiah 28:19Exodus 34:2

(7) 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.
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Hosea 8:4I Kings 15:28I Kings 16:9I Kings 16:10I Kings 16:11I Kings 16:18I Kings 16:22II Kings 9:24II Kings 9:33II Kings 10:7II Kings 10:14II Kings 15:10

(8) Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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Hosea 5:7Hosea 5:13Hosea 9:3Ezra 9:1Ezra 9:12Nehemiah 13:23Nehemiah 13:24Nehemiah 13:25Psalms 106:35Ezekiel 23:4Ezekiel 23:5Ezekiel 23:6

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Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13Isaiah 9:21Genesis 48:20Numbers 2:18Judges 7:24

(9) Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
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Hosea 8:7II Kings 13:3II Kings 13:4II Kings 13:5II Kings 13:6II Kings 13:7II Kings 13:22II Kings 15:19Proverbs 23:35Isaiah 42:22Isaiah 42:23Isaiah 42:24

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Matthew 11:27I Corinthians 2:11I Corinthians 8:2Isaiah 22:16

(10) And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
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Hosea 5:5Jeremiah 3:3Hosea 7:7Hosea 6:1Proverbs 27:22Isaiah 9:13Jeremiah 8:5Jeremiah 8:6Jeremiah 25:5Jeremiah 25:6Jeremiah 25:7Jeremiah 35:15

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Hosea 5:15Malachi 3:7

(11) Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Hosea 11:11Hosea 4:11Proverbs 6:32Proverbs 15:32Proverbs 17:16Hosea 5:13Hosea 8:8Hosea 8:9Hosea 9:3Hosea 12:1Hosea 14:3II Kings 15:19

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II Kings 17:4Judges 12:4Isaiah 11:13

(12) When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
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Job 19:6Jeremiah 16:16Ezekiel 12:13Ezekiel 17:20Ezekiel 32:3Ecclesiastes 9:12Leviticus 26:14Leviticus 26:15Leviticus 26:16Leviticus 26:17Leviticus 26:18Leviticus 26:19

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Ezekiel 32:3

(13) Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
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Hosea 9:12Isaiah 31:1Lamentations 5:16Ezekiel 16:23Matthew 23:13Matthew 23:14Matthew 23:15Matthew 23:16Matthew 23:17Matthew 23:18Matthew 23:19Matthew 23:20

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Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Revelation 8:13

(14) And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
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Job 35:9Job 35:10Psalms 78:34Psalms 78:35Psalms 78:36Psalms 78:37Isaiah 29:13Jeremiah 3:10Zechariah 7:5Isaiah 52:5Isaiah 65:14Amos 8:3

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Mark 2:22Matthew 9:17

(15) Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
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II Kings 13:5II Kings 13:23II Kings 14:25II Kings 14:26II Kings 14:27Psalms 106:43Psalms 106:44Psalms 106:45Job 5:17Psalms 94:12Proverbs 3:11Hebrews 12:5

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Jeremiah 5:22Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(16) They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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Hosea 6:4Hosea 8:14Hosea 11:7Psalms 78:37Jeremiah 3:10Luke 8:13Luke 11:24Luke 11:25Luke 11:26Psalms 78:57Hosea 7:13Psalms 12:4

Related verses (shared words)

Song of Solomon 6:13I Samuel 29:4Isaiah 45:23Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55

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