Hosea 7:5
in Hosea 7The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.
KJV
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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This verse in Hosea 7
Commentary
9 notes on this verse"The day of our king: the princes began to rage from wine: he stretched out his hand with the mockers." LXX: "The days of your kings. The princes began to rave from wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilences." A dark place and in need of the attentive reader's sense, so that we may first understand the history.
This site's exposition
as an oven heated by the baker
on Hosea 7:4-7
The nation's appetite for evil is pictured as a baker's oven, banked low through the night so that it needs no fresh stoking before it blazes at dawn, wickedness so habitual it feeds itself. Verse five briefly leaves the figure for a court scene, the day of our king, princes made sick with wine and the king himself joining hands with scorners, before the oven returns in verse six to devour judges and topple king after king. The bench connects the rapid turnover of thrones here to Israel's last chaotic decades, several kings removed by conspiracy and the sword within a single generation, and the unit closes on its own refrain, there is none among them that calleth unto me.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Although you might marry and in the face of the authority of all the Scriptures never commit adultery, why do you not with God's grace accept what is lawful? Instead you dare to offend God and commit what is unlawful. I would like to know …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
15 ), much more to a crowned head; for the greater any man's dignity is the greater disgrace it is to him to be drunk. It is not for kings, O Lemuel! it is not for kings, to drink wine, Prov. xxxi. See what a prejudice the sin of drunkenness is to a man, to a king.
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, 7 , and the charge of drunkenness comes in in the midst of this article; for wine is oil to the fire of lust, Prov. xxiii. Those that are inflamed with fleshly lusts, that are adulterers (
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4 ); they do not return to the Lord their God by repentance and reformation, nor do they seek him by faith and prayer for all this; though they suffer for going astray from him, though it can never be well with them till they come back to him, and though they have in vain sought to others for relief, yet they think not of applying to God.
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In the day of our king,....
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
In the day of our king, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine - (Or, “with heat from wine.”) Their holydays, like those of so many Englishmen now, were days of excess. “The day of their king” was probably some civil festival; his birthday, or his coronation-day. The prophet owns the king, in that he calls him “our king;” he does not blame them for keeping the day, but for the way in which they kept it.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the day of our king--his birthday or day of inauguration. have made him sick--namely, the king. MAURER translates, "make themselves sick." with bottles of wine--drinking not merely glasses, but bottles.
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The words behind it
10 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| י֣וֹם | yom | [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| מַלְכֵּ֔נוּ | malkenu | king our | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| הֶחֱל֥וּ | hechelu | they became sick | H2470 → | |
| שָׂרִ֖ים | sarim | princes | H8269 → | 421 times |
| חֲמַ֣ת | chamat | fever | H2534 → | |
| מִיָּ֑יִן | miyayin | from wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| מָשַׁ֥ךְ | mashakh | he stretched out | H4900 → | |
| יָד֖וֹ | yado | hand his | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | with | H854 → | 929 times |
| לֹצְצִֽים׃ | lotzetzim | scorners | H3887 → |
י֣וֹם[the] day of
yomH3117 →2304 times
מַלְכֵּ֔נוּking our
malkenuH4428 →2525 times
הֶחֱל֥וּthey became sick
hecheluH2470 →
שָׂרִ֖יםprinces
sarimH8269 →421 times
חֲמַ֣תfever
chamatH2534 →
מִיָּ֑יִןfrom wine
miyayinH3196 →141 times
מָשַׁ֥ךְhe stretched out
mashakhH4900 →
יָד֖וֹhand his
yadoH3027 →1618 times
אֶת־with
ʾet-H854 →929 times
לֹצְצִֽים׃scorners
lotzetzimH3887 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
it leads to
- Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
- Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Galatians 5:21–25
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Acts 11:24
Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
- Luke 1:15
Through
Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised…
it leads to
- Job 12:10
The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in…
- Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Job 12:10
About Hosea
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Caesarius of Arles, SERMON 43; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor Prophets: A Commentary; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Hosea 7:5-7; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.