Hosea 7:3

Hosea 7:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
• New International Version (NIV)“They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.
• English Standard Version (ESV)By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.

Context of Hosea 7:3

1‘Yes, I want to make the people of Israel healthy again, but I see how great their sins are. Samaria's people do many evil things. They deceive one another, they take things from other people's homes, and they attack people in the streets to rob them. 2They do not understand that I remember all their sins. The wicked things that they do are everywhere. Wherever they go, I see their sins very clearly. The king is happy to see the evil things that his people do. The leaders are also happy when the people cheat and tell lies. 4None of them serves me faithfully. They are always ready to do bad things, like an oven that has a hot fire inside it. When the baker is ready to bake his bread, he makes the fire even hotter. 5On a day when the king has a feast, the leaders drink too much wine. The king and the leaders join with other people to do foolish things.

Hosea 7:3 word by word

בְּרָעָתָ֖ם יְשַׂמְּחוּ־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖ם שָׂרִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They make the kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• gladשָׂמַחώâmach · to rejoiceH8055
• with their wickednessרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: evilH7451
• and the princesשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
• with their liesכַּ֫חַשׁkachash · lieH3585

Cross-references for Hosea 7:3

• Hosea 5:11Terrible trouble will come to Ephraim's people. They will receive great punishment. They deserve that because they chose to worship idols.
• 1 Kings 22:6So the king of Israel brought together about 400 prophets. He asked them, ‘Should I attack Ramoth Gilead, or not?’ They answered, ‘Yes, go and attack it, because the Lord God will give it to you, our king.’
• Jeremiah 5:31The prophets speak messages that are not true. The priests make their own rules for people to obey. And my people love to live like this! But when all this comes to an end, my people will be helpless!’
• Jeremiah 9:2I would like to live in a hut in the desert. Then I could leave my people. I could forget about them. They have all turned away from God. They have not been faithful to him. They are a crowd of people that nobody can trust.’
• Jeremiah 28:1In the same year, the prophet Hananiah spoke to me. It happened in the fifth month of the fourth year that King Zedekiah ruled Judah. Hananiah was the son of Azzur, who came from Gibeon. He spoke to me in the Lord's temple, where the priests and all the people could hear him.
• Jeremiah 37:19Your own prophets said that the king of Babylon would not attack you or the land of Judah. That was a lie, so what have you done to them?
• Amos 7:10Amaziah, was a priest at the holy place called Bethel. He sent a message to Jeroboam, the king of Israel. He said, ‘Amos is speaking against you among all Israel's people. What he is saying will deceive the people of our nation.
• Micah 6:16You have obeyed the rules of King Omri. You have done what King Ahab and all his people did. You have copied their wicked ideas. So I must destroy you and all your things completely. Then people from other countries will not be kind or polite to you. Instead, they will make you ashamed.’
• Micah 7:3They know very well how to work together to do bad things. Rulers demand gifts and judges ask for money. Powerful bad people always get what they want. All these people work together to do what is bad.
• Romans 1:32These people understand God's message about what is right. They know that people who do bad things like this ought to die. But they still continue to do those bad things. They are even happy when other people do those bad things too.
• 1 John 4:5Those false prophets belong to this world. Their message comes from the ideas of people of this world. So the people of this world believe what they teach.

Commentaries on Hosea 7:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3They 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."Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The prophet did not record the king's name. Many people believe it was Hoshea, the last king of the northern kingdom.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Their princes, instead of checking, "have pleasure in them that do" such crimes (Ro 1:32).Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 7:3

• Godlessness
• Rulers
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Troop
• Hosea
• Zechariah, Book of

Commentaries on Hosea 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings