King James Version
Hosea 7:3 in the King James Version says “They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.” — study this verse from Hosea chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.”
Hosea 7:3 · KJV
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. wickedness: Heb. evils spoileth: Heb. strippeth
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. consider: Heb. say not to
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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. who: or, the raiser will cease raising: or, waking
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. bottles: or, heat through wine
KJV Study — Public Domain
“glad”
H8055probably to brighten up, i.e., (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
“with their lies”
H3585literally a failure of flesh, i.e., emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
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