Hosea 7:3 “They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies…”

Hosea 7:3

They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They make the King glad with their wickednesse, and the princes with their lies.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies — princes.

Bible in Basic English

In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

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Cross references

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

Romans 1:32 Micah 7:3 Jeremiah 28:1–4 Hosea 5:11 1 Kings 22:6 1 Kings 22:13

Romans 1:32 · BSB

Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

Micah 7:3 · BSB

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Jeremiah 28:1–4 · BSB

In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presenc…

Hosea 5:11 · BSB

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

1 Kings 22:6 · BSB

So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of…

1 Kings 22:13 · BSB

Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

Also

Hosea 4:2 Hosea 7:5

Hosea 4:2 · BSB

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Hosea 7:5 · BSB

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

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