Cross references

Hosea 7:3

They delight the king with their evil,

and the princes with their lies.

Hosea 7:3 BSB

Hosea 7:3 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 1:32 (6 votes) and Micah 7:3 (5 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from 1 Samuel 22 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does Hosea 7:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

  2. Micah 7:35 votes

    Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

  3. In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. …

  4. So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and asked them, “Should I go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should I refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

  5. Then the messenger who had gone to call Micaiah instructed him, “Behold now, with one accord the words of the prophets are favorable to the king. So please let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”

  6. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

  7. If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

  8. Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?

  9. Hosea 4:22 votes

    Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

  10. Hosea 5:112 votes

    Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

  11. Hosea 7:52 votes

    The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

  12. Micah 6:162 votes
  13. 1 John 4:52 votes

Which verses point to Hosea 7:3?

The 10 strongest of 19.