Hosea 7:3

Their wickedness amuses the king, and their lying gladdens the princes,

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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

In Context

2But it never crosses their minds that I remember their wickedness. Now their misdeeds surround them, they are always before my face.

4since they are all of them adulterers. Their desire to do evil burns like an oven heated by the baker, so hot that he need not stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it rises.

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Cross References

Hosea 4:2but cursing, lying, and murder, stealing, committing adultery, and deeds of violence, and acts of bloodshed quickly follow each other.

Hosea 7:5On our king’s festival day, the princes are flushed with fever from wine. He stretched forth his hand with the contemptuous,

Micah 6:16“For you have followed the commands of Omri, and all the practices of the house of Ahab. You have acted in accord with their counsels, so I will give you up to ruin, the city’s inhabitants to derision. The nations will treat you with contempt!”

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 →

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