Hosea 7:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Hosea 7:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Hosea 7:3 is a verse from the book of Hosea in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Hosea 7:3 — KJV
“They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.”
— Hosea 7:3 (KJV)
Hosea 7:3 in Context — About the Book of Hosea
Hosea lived his sermon: commanded to marry an unfaithful wife and keep bringing her home, he became a walking picture of God's scandalous love for wandering Israel. The book aches with betrayal yet ends with healing for backsliders and love that will not let go.
Cross-References for Hosea 7:3
“Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.”
Shares key themes with Hosea 7:3: king, glad, princes
“Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.”
Shares key themes with Hosea 7:3: make, king, lies
“To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;”
Shares key themes with Hosea 7:3: make, king, princes
“And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.”
Shares key themes with Hosea 7:3: make, king, princes
“All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. decree: or, interdict”
Shares key themes with Hosea 7:3: make, king, princes
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