Hosea 7:7

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Summary

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.

Devoured

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General references

Proverbs 6:27

Bible References

Devoured

They have ordained kings, but not through me: they have made princes, and I must not know of it. Of their silver and gold have they made them images, to bring themselves to destruction.

And it was the third year of Asa king of Judah, when Baasha slew him, and reigned in his stead.

And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking of strong drink, in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

And Jehu took a bow in his hand and smote Jehoram between the shoulders, that the arrow came out at his breast. And he fell down three fold in his chariot.

And when the letter came to them, they took the king's children and slew them in number, seventy persons, and put their heads in coffins and sent them to him to Jezreel.

And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his stead.

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And the pride of Israel is cast down before their face, yet will they not turn to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.

As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.

For the people turneth not unto him, that chastiseth them, neither do they seek the LORD of Hosts.

"For thou, Jacob, wouldest not call upon me, but thou hadst an un-lust toward me, O Israel.

There is no man that calleth upon thy name, that standeth up to take hold by thee. Therefore hidest thou thy face from us and consumest us, because of our sins.

And I sought in the land for a man, that would make up the hedge, and set himself in the gap before me in the lands behalf, that I should not utterly destroy it: but I could find none.

Yea, all this plague, as it is written in the law of Moses, is come upon us. Yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn again from our wickedness, and to be learned in thy verity.

General references

May a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burnt?