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Hos. 7:2–3 The actions described in ch. 7 illustrate that Israel shows no sorrow for their sin. By their evil they make the king glad describes acts that please royalty, perhaps by assassinating potential rivals.
Hos. 7:4–16 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. 4–7), a half-baked cake (vv. 8–10), a silly dove (vv. 11–12), and a treacherous bow (vv. 13–16), thus describing their passion for evil, their foolishness, and their uselessness.
Hos. 7:4–7 These verses compare adulterers with an oven. In v. 4, the heated oven represents a quiet passion that does not go out even though the baker ceases to stir the fire. In v. 6, the oven is a restrained passion that unexpectedly and violently erupts; it blazes like a flaming fire. In v. 7, the oven represents a consuming passion that will devour . . . rulers and all their kings. This may refer to the assassinations of four of the last six Israelite kings.
Hos. 7:8 mixes himself with the peoples. Israel’s spiritual unfaithfulness has made it no different from the pagan nations. a cake not turned. That is, half-baked, not fit for eating.
Hos. 7:14–15 gash themselves. Probably to call on Baal (see 1 Kings 18:28).
Hos. 7:16 Egypt here represents all foreign powers but refers specifically to Israel’s time of slavery in Egypt (Exodus 1–12). Like other historical references in Hosea, the name mourns the reversal of Israel’s fortunes.
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