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Hosea 7:3

Sin

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.

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

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.
KJV
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
WEB
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
ASV
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
DARBY
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
BLB
With their evil they make glad the king, and with their lies—princes.
ÅB
Ved sin ondskap gleder de kongen og ved sine løgner fyrstene.
OTB
Gjennom deres ondskap gleder de kongen,
Og embetsmennene gleder seg over deres bedrag.
B1930
Ved sin ondskap gleder de kongen og ved sine løgner fyrstene.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Romans 1:32

    Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

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  • Micah 7:3

    That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

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  • Jeremiah 28:1–4

    And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

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  • Amos 7:10–13

    Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

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  • Jeremiah 5:31

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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  • 1 Kings 22:13

    And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

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  • Hosea 4:2

    By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

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  • 1 John 4:5

    They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

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