OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 7:6

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For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

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Verse 6. Them. Jeroboam seduces the subjects of the house of David, by indulging the passions of the great and small. He may then sleep; the poison gains ground. Calmet.—But soon his own family will feel the direful effects of his policy. Bible.

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