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 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."
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Hosea 7:3
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.