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Hosea 7:3

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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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  1. Romans 1:32Rank 1 from verse 3
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    32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

  2. Micah 7:3Rank 2 from verse 3
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    3¶ That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  3. Jeremiah 28:1–4Rank 3 from verse 3
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    1AND it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the Lord, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

    2Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

    3Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

    4And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the Lord: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

  4. 1 John 4:5Rank 4 from verse 3
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    5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

  5. 1 Kings 22:13Rank 5 from verse 3
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    13And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.

  6. 1 Kings 22:6Rank 6 from verse 3
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    6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

  7. Amos 7:10–13Rank 7 from verse 3
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    10¶ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

    11For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

    12Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

    13But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.

  8. Hosea 4:2Rank 8 from verse 3
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  9. Hosea 5:11Rank 9 from verse 3
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    11Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

  10. Hosea 7:5Rank 10 from verse 3
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    5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

  11. Jeremiah 37:19Rank 11 from verse 3
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    19Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

  12. Jeremiah 5:31Rank 12 from verse 3
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    31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

  13. Jeremiah 9:2Rank 13 from verse 3
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

  14. Micah 6:16Rank 14 from verse 3
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    16¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

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Hosea 7:3

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make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

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king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

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glad

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Pleased; affected with pleasure or moderate joy; moderately happy.

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lies

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Sense 1: False statements or deceptions. Sense 2: As a verb, reclines, remains, is situated, or speaks falsely.

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7:2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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7:4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

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