Héxīāshū 7:3

3 Tāmen xíng è shǐ jūnwáng huānxǐ , shuōhuǎng shǐ shǒulǐng xǐlè .

Héxīāshū 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.

Héxīāshū 7:3 In-Context

1 Wǒ xiǎng yīzhì Yǐsèliè de shíhou , Yǐfǎlián de zuìniè , hé Sāmǎlìyà de zuìè , jiù xiǎnlù chūlai . tāmen xíngshì xū huǎng , neì yǒu zéi rén rù shì tōuqiè , waì yǒu qiángdào chéngqún sāo rǎo .

2 Tāmen xīnli bìng bù sīxiǎng wǒ jìniàn tāmende yīqiè è , tāmen suǒ xíng de xiànzaì chán rǎo tāmen , dōu zaì wǒ miànqián .

3 Tāmen xíng è shǐ jūnwáng huānxǐ , shuōhuǎng shǐ shǒulǐng xǐlè .

4 Tāmen dōu shì xíng yín de , xiàng huǒlú beì kǎo bǐng de shāo rè , cóng tuán miàn dào fā miàn de shíhou , zàn bú shǐ huǒ zhe wàng .

5 Zaì wǒmen wáng yàn lè de rìzi , shǒulǐng yīn jiǔ de liè xìng chéng bìng . wáng yǔ xiè màn rén lá shǒu .