Hosea 7:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.

Cross References

1 Kings 22:13

The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

1 Kings 22:6

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred of them, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” They said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots, in the multitude 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 murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after vanity.

Hosea 7:5

On the day of our king the officials became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Micah 6:16

For you have kept the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have followed their counsels. Therefore I will make you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of hissing, so you shall bear the scorn of my people.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.