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The word \u201coven\u201d (<\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em>) appears only 15 times in the entire Tanakh, three in Hosea alone and all in this chapter. In v. 4, he compared the people\u2019s commission of adultery to \u201can oven fired by a baker, who desists from stoking only from the kneading of the dough to its leavening,\u201d* illustrating their intense preoccupation with their nefarious ways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In v.6, \u201cThey 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 signifying their constant commitment to their sins. Finally, in v.7, referring to the general passion with which they act in even political affairs, Hosea said: \u201cThey all get heated like an oven and devour their rulers\u2014none of them calls to Me; all their kings have fallen [by their hand].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Malbim explained the simile as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

He compared the impulse to commit adultery to a flame that heats up an oven just as passion inflames the desire for sex. The baker, who heats the oven, sits all night and tends to the flame, and if he falls asleep, there is someone who arouses him lest the oven get cold. Therefore, he gets to sleep only while the new dough is rising and is getting ready to be baked, because then the one who rouses him lets him be. [Similarly,] the passion does not leave them for even a moment and keeps awakening their desire anew, resting only briefly between bouts of adultery as they regain their strength.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initial appearance of <\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em> is in Genesis 15:17: \u201cWhen the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven (<\/span>tanur<\/span><\/em>) and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces.\u201d Perhaps the association of an oven with that earlier covenant forged between God and Abraham led to its use here to symbolize its violation?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>*Attending a bar mitzvah in Bnei Brak in 1964, I was taken home from shul by way of the local bakery. While I thought that we would be picking up a fancy cake, it turned out that we were there to retrieve the chulent pot that had been placed in the oven Friday afternoon. 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