Hosea Chapter 7 verse 3 Holy Bible
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.
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With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. The moral corruption and depravity of Israel were extreme and universal. They reached from the rabble to royalty, from the common people to the princes of the court. The king and princes were in full accord with fellows of the basest sort, taking pleasure in their wickedness trod applauding their lies. (1) Rosenmüller quotes the explanation of Abarbanel to the following purport: "He (the prophet) means to say that the violent men of that ago were accustomed to narrate their atrocities to their kings, that the latter might thence derive entertainment." It is much the same whether the king and princes of that time took pleasure in the villanies which were perpetrated, or in the narratives of those villanies to which they listened, (2) A somewhat different rendering, and consequently different exposition, have much to recommend them: "In their wickedness they make the king merry, and in their feigning the princes;" their wickedness was their diabolical design to assassinate king and princes; with this object in view they make the king merry with wine so that he might fall an easy and unsuspecting victim; their feigning was their fell purpose of assassination under the profession of friendship. Such was the desperate treachery of those miscreant conspirators. This view tallies well with the context.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Glad.--The evil awakens no alarm, but rather sympathy and gladness, in the breasts of their kings and rulers, who are ready to follow suit in all deeds of violence.
