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  1. Exposing the corruption and correcting it<\/em>. Verse 1 connects the two: \u201cWhen I would heal Israel…\u201d – \u201c…The guilt of Ephraim reveals itself.\u201d The doctor has to expose the wound to cure it.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. In today\u2019s news.<\/em> The prophecy rebukes the betrayal and frequent rebellions in the kingdom. The Book of Kings relates all the names and events. See II Kings, 15.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Like a cake\u2026<\/em> A variety of images in the chapter are taken from the world of baking. Adultery is like \u201clike an oven fired by a baker\u201d (4); the ministers behave as a baker to his dough (ibid); the ambush that the rebels deploy is like an oven, stoked at night: \u201cFor they approach their ambush With their hearts like an oven: Through the night Their baker has slept; In the morning, it flares up Like a blazing fire\u201d (6); and scorches. And Ephraim? He\u2019s part of the metaphor too. He is like a \u201ccake, incapable of turning,\u201d (8) – baked only on one side. Inedible.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. No heart – no head<\/em>. The heart in the ancient world was the seat of understanding, not of emotion (those are located either in the stomach or the kidneys). And so – \u201cEphraim has acted Like a silly dove with no mind (lev)\u201d (11). He\u2019s not heartless – he\u2019s lost his mind.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. When?<\/em> The political reality that\u2019s described in verse 11 \u201cThey have appealed to Egypt! They have gone to Assyria!\u201d is particularly apt for the period of King Hosea ben Ela, the last king of Samaria, who forges an alliance with Egypt and rebels against Assyria. 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