Hosea 7:3
With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule under their guidance, And my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end of it?
Jeremiah 28:1And it came to pass in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azur the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
Hosea 4:2Perjury, and falsehood, and murder, And theft, and adultery have broken forth, And blood reacheth to blood.
Hosea 7:5On the feast-day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.
Micah 6:16For ye keep the statutes of Omri, And all the works of the house of Ahab, And walk in their devices; Therefore will I make thee a desolation, And thine inhabitants a derision; And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8
Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →