Hos.7.4

Hosea 7:4

KJV GOD

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.

Ephraim’s Iniquity

Cross References

1 Corinthians 5:6

KJV

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Immorality Rebuked

Jeremiah 9:2

KJV

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

A Lament over Zion

Jeremiah 23:10

KJV

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Lying Prophets

False Prophets Denounced

Hosea 4:2

KJVGOD

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

God’s Case against His People

Hosea 4:10

KJVGOD

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.