English Standard Version
Hosea 7:5
5On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine, carousing with those who mock them.
Context of Hosea 7:5
3By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. 4They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. 6For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; 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 have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.
Read all of Hosea 7Hosea 7:5 word by word
י֣וֹם מַלְכֵּ֔נוּ הֶחֱל֥וּ שָׂרִ֖ים חֲמַ֣ת מִיָּ֑יִן מָשַׁ֥ךְ יָד֖וֹ אֶת־לֹצְצִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- In the dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
- of our kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
- the princesשַׂרώar · rulerH8269
- sickחָלָהchâlâh · be weak: illH2470
- with bottlesחֵמָהchêmâh chêmâ' · rageH2534
- of wineיַ֫יִןyayin · wineH3196
- he stretched outמָשַׁךְmâshak · to drawH4900
- his handיָדyâd · handH3027
- with scornersלָצַץlâtsats · to scornH3945
Cross-references for Hosea 7:5
- Genesis 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
- Matthew 14:6But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,
- Mark 6:21But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- Proverbs 20:1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
- Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
- Isaiah 28:1Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
- Habakkuk 2:15"Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
- Ephesians 5:18And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
- 1 Peter 4:3For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
- 1 Kings 13:4And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him." And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.
- Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
- Psalms 69:12I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
- Proverbs 13:20Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
- Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
- Daniel 5:4They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, 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
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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
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