Cross references
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers,
like an oven heated by a baker
who needs not stoke the fire
from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Hosea 7:4 has 6 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 9:2 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 5:7–8 (4 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Genesis 12 to James 4.
Which verses does Hosea 7:4 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Jeremiah 9:25 votes
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.
- Jeremiah 5:7–84 votes
“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- James 4:44 votes
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Hosea 4:22 votes
Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Hosea 4:122 votes
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
- Hosea 7:6–72 votes
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
Which verses point to Hosea 7:4?
The 10 strongest of 14.