New American Standard Bible 2020
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
1When I would heal Israel, The wrongdoing of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they practice deception; The thief enters, A band of robbers attack outside, 2And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; They are before My face. With their wickedness they make the king happy, And the officials with their lies. 4They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker, Who stops stoking the fire From the time the dough is kneaded until it is leavened. 5On the day of our king, the officials became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
Read all of Hosea 7Hosea 7:3 word by word
בְּרָעָתָ֖ם יְשַׂמְּחוּ־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּבְכַחֲשֵׁיהֶ֖ם שָׂרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Hosea 7:3
- Hosea 5:11Ephraim is oppressed, broken by judgment, Because he was determined to follow man’s command.
- 1 Kings 22:6So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Should I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead or should I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will hand it over to the king.”
- Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule on their own authority; And My people love it this way! But what will you do when the end comes?
- Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the desert A travelers’ lodging place; So that I might leave my people And go away from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous people.
- Jeremiah 28:1Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the prophet the son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me at the house of the Lord in the sight of the priests and all the people, saying,
- Jeremiah 37:19And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
- Amos 7:10Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.
- Micah 6:16The statutes of Omri And every work of the house of Ahab are maintained, And you walk by their plans. Therefore I will give you up for destruction, And your inhabitants for derision, And you will suffer the taunting of My people.”
- Micah 7:3As for evil, both hands do it well. The leader asks for a bribe, also the judge, And the great one speaks the capricious desire of his soul; So they plot it together.
- Romans 1:32and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- 1 John 4:5They are from the world, therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
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
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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
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