Hosea 7:5

Hosea 7:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
• New International Version (NIV)On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
• English Standard Version (ESV)On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

Context of Hosea 7:5

3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. 4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough. The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. 6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. 7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

Hosea 7:5 word by word

י֣וֹם מַלְכֵּ֔נוּ הֶחֱל֥וּ שָׂרִ֖ים חֲמַ֣ת מִיָּ֑יִן מָשַׁ֥ךְ יָד֖וֹ אֶת־לֹצְצִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• The princesשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
• are inflamedחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: illH2470
• are inflamedחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
• with wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
• on the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• of our kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
• so he joins handsמָשַׁךְmâshak · to drawH4900
• so he joins handsיָדyâd · handH3027
• withאֵת'êth · withH854
• those who mock himלִיץlûts · to mockH3887

Cross-references for Hosea 7:5

• Genesis 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
• Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
• Matthew 14:6On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod
• Mark 6:21On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
• Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
• Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
• Isaiah 28:1Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
• Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
• Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
• 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• 1 Kings 13:4Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
• Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Psalms 69:12Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
• Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
• Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
• Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Commentaries on Hosea 7:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5In 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. Their festival they turned into an…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-7The northern kingdom of Israel had seven different kings during the last twenty-five years of its history. Four of these kings were killed by men who seized the throne. This passage refers to the violent and bloody political struggles that happened in those years.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. 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. Maurer translates, "Owing to the heat of wine." he stretched out his hand with scorners--the gesture of revellers in holding out the cup and in drinking to one another's health. Scoffers were the king's boon companions.Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 7:5

• Company
• Drunkenness
• Infidelity
• King
• Scoffing
• Sin
• Temptation
• Wine

In the dictionaries

• Bottle
• Troop
• Hosea
• Scorn
• Sick; Sickness
• Tanner
• Zechariah, Book of
• Bake
• Birthday
• Wine

Commentaries on Hosea 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings