Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hosea 7:3
They — The courtiers in particular make it their work to invent pleasing wickedness, and to acquaint the king with it. With their lies — With false accusations against the innocent.
They — The courtiers in particular make it their work to invent pleasing wickedness, and to acquaint the king with it. With their lies — With false accusations against the innocent.
Verse Hosea 7:3. _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...
THEY MAKE THE KING GLAD WITH THEIR WICKEDNESS - Wicked sovereigns and a wicked people are a curse to each other, each encouraging the other in sin. Their king, being wicked, had pleasure in their wick...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
WICKEDNESS ENCOURAGED IN HIGH PLACES. King and princes gladly share in the prevailing wickedness adultery, drunkenness and the court itself is the scene of treachery, conspiracy, and assassinations. T...
CONSIDER NOT IN. say not to. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vnlg., read "say not in"....
The highest personages are not too refined for the most sensual pleasures. A consuming passion inflames them as if with the heat of a furnace. Their way of celebrating a royal commemoration is to indu...
_ISRAEL CONTINUED IN INIQUITY -- HOSEA 7:1-6:_ God attempted to heal Israel through corrective discipline. To His sorrow God discovered that Israel only became worse and worse. Their sin was so eviden...
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:1-7 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief ente...
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. THEY MAKE THE KING GLAD WITH THEIR WICKEDNESS, AND THE PRINCES WITH THEIR LIES. Their princes, instead of checking,...
CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
GLAD. — The evil awakens no alarm, but rather sympathy and gladness, in the breasts of their kings and rulers, who are ready to follow suit in all deeds of violence....
בְּ רָעָתָ֖ם יְשַׂמְּחוּ ־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּ בְ כַחֲש
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
4. WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Hosea 7:3 There follows now a very difficult passage. The text is corrupt, and we have no means of determining what precise events are intended. The drift of meaning, ho...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
They make the (b) king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. (b) They esteem their wicked king Jeroboam above God, and seek how to flatter and please him....
_Glad, &c. To please Jeroboam and their other kings, they have given themselves up to the worship of idols, which are mere falsehood and lies. (Challoner) --- We do not find one good king of Israel. ...
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
The Prophet now arraigns all the citizens of Samaria, and in their persons the whole people, because they rendered obedience to the king by flattery, and to the princes in wicked things, respecting wh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
THEY MAKE THE KING GLAD WITH THEIR WICKEDNESS,.... Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Grotius; if any particular king, rather Jeroboam the second; but their kings...
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. Ver. 3. _They make the king glad with their wickedness_] A sad commentary surely of king and people, exhilarating thems...
_They make the king glad with their wickedness_ They study to please their kings and great men, by complying with the idolatry they have set up. The Seventy (with whom agree the Syriac and Arabic) rea...
They, the criminals of every type, MAKE THE KING GLAD WITH THEIR WICKEDNESS AND THE PRINCES WITH THEIR LIES, a fact which shows that the highest ranks of the people were infested with the corruption....
THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
1-7 A practical disbelief of God's government was at the bottom of all israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins appear on every side of them. Their hearts were i...
THEY, either the subjects in general, or rather the courtiers in particular who were about the king, MAKE THE KING GLAD WITH THEIR WICKEDNESS: the kings of Israel, every one of them from first to last...
Hosea 7:3 king H4428 glad H8055 (H8762) wickedness H7451 princes H8269 lies H3585 Hosea 5:11;...
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KINGS ARE BOTH ALIKE, BURNING HOT IN THEIR SINS, IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH THEIR KINGS ARE ASSASSINATED ONE AFTER THE OTHER (HOSEA 7:3). Hosea now likens the people of Israel in the...
They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.' We might cite here ‘like people, like king'. For as the people carry on in the ways of sinfulness and apostasy, and es...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
A CAKE NOT TURNED Ephraim is a cake not turned. Hosea 7:3. What kind of cake is meant here? It is a sort of scone that the people in the East baked on hot stones or ashes. It had to be very careful...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:2 The actions described in ch. Hosea 7:1 illustrate that Israel shows no sorrow for their sin. BY THEIR EVIL THEY MAKE THE KING GLAD describes acts that plea
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:1.] Exposure of wickedness continued. HEALED] politically and morally. The danger of a wound only discovered when probed and healing attempted. SPOILETH] Heb. strippeth off a...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. 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 comes in...
1 John 4:5; 1 Kings 22:13; 1 Kings 22:6; Amos 7:10; Hosea 5:11;...