Hosea 7:3

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 22:13

The servant who had gone to get Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord declare success for the king. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.”

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, approximately four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I wait?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Jeremiah 37:19

Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you, nor against this land’?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they all are adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity, and you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your power and in the numbers of your warriors,

Hosea 11:12

Ephraim has surrounded Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah still walks with God, and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he eagerly followed after vanity.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the princes made him sick from the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scorners.

Micah 6:16

You observe the statutes of Omri, and every practice of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels. Therefore I will give you over to destruction, and the inhabitants to derision. You will bear the contempt of My people.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Romans 1:32

who know the righteous requirement of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death. They not only do them, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world, and therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.