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Hosea 7:3
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They please the king with their evil,the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies.
"They make the king happy with their wickedness; their rulers are glad with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.
With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.
With their evil they make the king glad,And the princes with their deceptions.
They delight the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
The king and his officials take great pleasure in their sin and deceit.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the leaders with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Their evil makes their king happy. Their false gods please their leaders.
They have made the kings glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
The Lord says, "People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots.
By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treacheries.
They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.
They make the kyng glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lyes.
They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
In her malice thei gladiden the kyng, and in her leesyngys `thei gladiden the princes.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
"The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies.
They make the king glad with their wrong-doing, and the leaders with their lies.
By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.
By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries, - rulers.
They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
They make the kinge and the princes, to haue pleasure in their wickednes & lyes.
"They entertain the king with their evil circus, delight the princes with their acrobatic lies. They're a bunch of overheated adulterers, like an oven that holds its heat From the kneading of the dough to the rising of the bread. On the royal holiday the princes get drunk on wine and the frenzy of the mocking mob. They're like wood stoves, red-hot with lust. Through the night their passion is banked; in the morning it blazes up, flames hungrily licking. Murderous and volcanic, they incinerate their rulers. Their kings fall one by one, and no one pays any attention to me.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hosea 5:11, 1 Kings 22:6, 1 Kings 22:13, Jeremiah 5:31, Jeremiah 9:2, Jeremiah 28:1-4, Jeremiah 37:19, Amos 7:10-13, Micah 6:16, Micah 7:3, Romans 1:32, 1 John 4:5
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 22:18 - he fell 1 Samuel 24:1 - it was told 2 Chronicles 18:12 - Behold Psalms 62:4 - delight Proverbs 2:14 - and Proverbs 19:10 - Delight Proverbs 31:4 - General Isaiah 1:23 - princes Isaiah 59:3 - your lips Hosea 7:13 - spoken Mark 14:11 - they were 1 Corinthians 13:6 - Rejoiceth not 2 Thessalonians 2:12 - but
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness,.... Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Grotius; if any particular king, rather Jeroboam the second; but their kings in general, as the Septuagint render it, in succession, one after another; who were highly delighted and pleased with the priests in offering sacrifice to the calves, and with the people in attending to that idolatrous worship, by which they hoped to secure the kingdom of Israel to themselves, and prevent the people going to Jerusalem to worship: it made them glad to the heart to hear them say that God was as well pleased with sacrifices offered at Dan and Bethel, as at Jerusalem:
and the princes with their lies; with their idols and idolatrous practices, which are vanity and a lie; though some interpret this of their flatteries, either of them, or their favourites; and of their calumnies and detractions of such they had a dislike of.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness - Wicked sovereigns and a wicked people are a curse to each other, each encouraging the other in sin. Their king, being wicked, had pleasure in their wickedness; and they, seeing him to be pleased by it, set themselves the more, to do what was evil, and to amuse him with accounts of their sins. Sin is in itself so shameful, that even the great cannot, by themselves, sustain themselves in it, without others to flatter them. A good and serious man is a reproach to them. And so, the sinful great corrupt others, both as aiding them in their debaucheries, and in order not to be reproached by their virtues, and because the sinner has a corrupt pleasure and excitement in hearing of tales of sin, as the good joy to hear of good. Whence Paul says, “who, knowing the judgment of God that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” Romans 1:32.
But whereas, they all, kings, princes, and people, thus agreed and conspired in sin, and the sin of the great is the rarest destructive, the prophet here upbraids the people most for this common sin, apparently because they were free from the greater temptations of the great, and so their sin was the more willful. “An unhappy complaisance was the ruling character of Israel. It preferred its kings to God. Conscience was versatile, accommodating. Whatever was authorized by those in power, was approved.” Ahab added the worship of Baal to that of the calves; Jehu confined himself to the sin of Jeroboam. The people acquiesced in the legalized sin. Much as if now, marriages, which by God’s law are incest, or remarriages of the divorced, which our Lord pronounces adultery, were to be held allowable, because man’s law ceases to annex any penalty to them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 7:3. They make the king glad — They pleased Jeroboam by coming readily into his measures, and heartily joining with him in his idolatry. And they professed to be perfectly happy in their change, and to be greatly advantaged by their new gods; and that the religion of the state now was better than that of Jehovah. Thus, they made all their rulers, "glad with their lies."
