They make the king glad with their wickedness - Wicked sovereigns and a wicked people are a curse to each other, each encouraging the other …

Glad.— The evil awakens no alarm, but rather sympathy and gladness, in the hearts of their kings and rulers, who are ready to foll…

The Prophet now accuses all the citizens of Samaria, and in them the whole people, because they gave obedience to the king through flattery, and to…

They make the king glad with their wickedness Not any particular king; not Jeroboam the first, as Kimchi; nor Jehu, as Gr…

A practical disbelief in God's government was at the bottom of all Israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins a…