Hosea 7:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This verse is a key to the former, and helps us to understand the true sense thereof. They: see Hosea 7:6. All; in a larger and more vulgar sense, the most, or almost all of them, few excepted. As an oven: see Hosea 7:6. Have devoured; as fire destroys, so have these conspirators, when successful, destroyed. Their judges; those that were magistrates and rulers. who having somewhat of integrity, would not join with them, nor promote the interest of usurpers. All their kings; all that had been since Jeroboam the Second's reign to the delivery of this prophecy, viz. Zachariah, Shallum, Pekahiah, Pekah; these four fell by the conspiracy of such hot princes, only Menahem died a natural death. Are fallen, by treason and violence from such as would drink them sick with wishes of health. There is none among them that calleth unto me; not one of all these either feared, trusted, or worshipped God. By profession all were idolaters, in practice debauched, and by their company they kept these latter kings of Israel appear under a suspicion of men contemning God, and deriding providence; but they are long since fallen, where they must lie for ever, under God's justice.