Hosea 7:3

Ephraim's Guilt

² It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention. ³ They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty. ⁴ All of them are adulterers they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.

Sin

Micah 7:3

And speaking of evil, they practice it eagerly with both hands! Both leader and judge demand a bribe, the famous confess their perverted desires, and they scheme together.

Romans 1:32

Although they know God's just requirement that those who practice such things deserve to die they not only do these things but even applaud others who practice them.

Jeremiah 28:1-4

In that same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year and the fifth month, Azzur's son Hananiah, the prophet from Gibeon, told me at the LORD's Temple in front of the priests and all the people,

1 Kings 22:6

So the king of Israel called in about 400 prophets and asked them, "Should we go attack Ramoth-gilead, or should I call off the attack?" "Go attack them," they all said, "because the Lord will drop them right into the king's hand!"

1 Kings 22:13

Meanwhile, the messenger who had gone off to summon Micaiah advised him, "Look, everything that the other prophets were saying was unanimously favorable to the king. So please, cooperate with them and speak favorably."

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?"

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, telling you: "The king of Babylon won't come against you or against this land'?

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is crushed, broken by judgment, because he willingly pursued idols.

Hosea 7:5

"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.

Amos 7:10-13

So Amaziah priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel. It said, "Amos has been conspiring against you in the very heart of the house of Israel! The land cannot bear everything he has to say,

Micah 6:16

You keep Omri's statutes and observe the customs of the house of Ahab. Because you live according to their advice, I'll make you desolate and turn your inhabitants into an object of scorn. Therefore you will bear the shame of my people."

1 John 4:5

These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.