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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN
TEXT: Hosea 7:1-7
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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בְּ רָעָתָ֖ם יְשַׂמְּחוּ ־מֶ֑לֶךְ וּ
בְ כַחֲש
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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...
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THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL
Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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_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. ...
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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;...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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THE MORAL CORRUPTION OF ISRAEL...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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Hosea 7:3 king H4428 glad H8055 (H8762) wickedness H7451 princes H8269
lies H3585
Hosea 5:11;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 John 4:5; 1 Kings 22:13; 1 Kings 22:6; Amos 7:10; Hosea 5:11;...
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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....