Hosea 7:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Hosea 7:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They 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...
Hosea 7:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They make the (b) king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. (b) They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek how to flatter and please him.
Hosea 7:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Wickedness Encouraged in High Places. King and princes gladly share in the prevailing wickedness adultery, drunkenness and the court itself is the scene of treachery, conspiracy, and assassinations...
Hosea 7:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

consider not in . say not to. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vnlg., read "say not in".
Hosea 7:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet now arraigns all the citizens of Samaria, and in their persons the whole people, because they rendered obedience to the king by flattery, and to the princes in wicked things, respec...
Hosea 7:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They make the king glad - They pleased Jeroboam by coming readily into his measures, and heartily joining with him in h...
Hosea 7:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Their princes, instead of check...
Hosea 7:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Corruption of the Court In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the ce...
Hosea 7:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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.
Hosea 7:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1-19 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:...
Hosea 7:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Iniquity Uncovered Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailin...
Hosea 7:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describ...
Hosea 7:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated...
Hosea 7:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They make the king glad with their wickedness ,.... Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Grotius; if any particular king, rather Jeroboam the second; but their ki...
Hosea 7:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Ver. 3. They make the king glad with their wickedness ] A sad commentary surely of king and people, exhilarating the...
Hosea 7:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They make the king glad with their wickedness They study to please their kings and great men, by complying with the idolatry they have set up. The Seventy (with whom agree the Syriac and Arabic) re...
Hosea 7:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. B. C. 750. 1 When I would hav...
Hosea 7:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They, either the subjects in general, or rather the courtiers in particular who were about the king, make the king glad with their wickedness: the kings of Israel, every one of them from first to...
Hosea 7:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.' We might cite here ‘like people, like king'. For as the people carry on in the ways of sinfulness and apostasy, and...
Hosea 7:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES .— Hosea 7:1 .] Exposure of wickedness continued. Healed ] politically and morally. The danger of a wound only discovered when probed and healing attempted. Spoileth ] Heb. stri...
Hosea 7:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 7:1 . When I would have healed Israel, by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to ret...
Hosea 7:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1-28 , the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and p...
Hosea 7:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Moral Corruption of Israel
Hosea 7:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:5 ; 1 Kings 22:13 ; 1 Kings 22:6 ; Amos 7:10-13 ; Hosea 5:11 ; Jeremiah 28:1-4 ; Jeremiah 37:19 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Jeremiah 9:2 ; Micah 6:16 ; Micah 7:3 ; Romans 1:32
Hosea 7:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — The courtiers in particular make it their work to invent pleasing wickedness, and to acquaint the king with it. With their lies — With false accusations against the innocent.

Hosea 7:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hosea 7:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hosea 7:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hosea 7:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 7:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Hosea 7:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hosea 7:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hosea 7:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hosea 7:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 7:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes