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## Hosea 7:1-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/hosea/7/1) 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.**
 
 [2 ](/kjv/hosea/7/2) 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.*
 
 [3 ](/kjv/hosea/7/3) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/hosea/7/4) 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.**
 
 [5 ](/kjv/hosea/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.*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/hosea/7/6) 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.*
 
[Hosea 6](/kjv/hosea/6) [Hosea 8](/kjv/hosea/8)

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