Osea 7:3

3 Essi rallegrano il re con la loro malvagità, e i capi con le loro menzogne.

Osea 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

Hosea 7:3

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 in general, as the Septuagint render it, in succession, one after another; who were highly delighted and pleased with the priests in offering sacrifice to the calves, and with the people in attending to that idolatrous worship, by which they hoped to secure the kingdom of Israel to themselves, and prevent the people going to Jerusalem to worship: it made them glad to the heart to hear them say that God was as well pleased with sacrifices offered at Dan and Bethel, as at Jerusalem: and the princes with their lies;
with their idols and idolatrous practices, which are vanity and a lie; though some interpret this of their flatteries, either of them, or their favourites; and of their calumnies and detractions of such they had a dislike of.

Osea 7:3 In-Context

1 Quand’ho voluto guarire Israele, allora s’è scoperta l’iniquità d’Efraim e la malvagità di Samaria; poiché praticano la falsità; il ladro entra, e i briganti scorrazzano fuori.

2 E non dicono in cuor loro che io tengo a mente tutta la loro malvagità. Ora le loro azioni li circondano; esse stanno davanti alla mia faccia.

3 Essi rallegrano il re con la loro malvagità, e i capi con le loro menzogne.

4 Sono tutti degli adulteri; sono come un forno scaldato dal fornaio, che cessa d’attizzare il fuoco dacché ha intriso la pasta finché sia lievitata.

5 Nel giorno del nostro re, i capi si rendon malati a forza di scaldarsi col vino; il re stende la mano ai giullari.