Oseas 7:3

3 »Con su maldad deleitan al rey;con sus mentiras, a las autoridades.

Oseas 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.

Oseas 7:3 In-Context

1 cuando sane yo a Israel,la perversidad de Efraín y la maldad de Samariaquedarán al descubierto.Porque ellos cometen fraudes;mientras el ladrón se mete en las casas,una banda de salteadores roba en las calles.

2 No se ponen a pensarque yo tomo en cuenta todas sus maldades.Sus malas acciones los tienen cercados,y las tengo muy presentes.

3 »Con su maldad deleitan al rey;con sus mentiras, a las autoridades.

4 Parecen un horno encendidocuyo fuego no hace falta atizardesde que el panadero prepara la harinahasta que la masa fermenta.¡Todos ellos son adúlteros!

5 En la fiesta del rey las autoridades se enciendenbajo los efectos del vino,y el rey pierde su dignidadcodeándose con la plebe.