Hosea 7:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Hosea 7:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Psalms 69:12
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Isaiah 28:7-8
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. …
1 Kings 13:4
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.
Mark 6:21
And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

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Afflictions and Adversities Company Depravity of Man Derision Dissipation Drink Drunkard Drunkenness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Some take away the last words of the foregoing chapter, and make them the beginning of this: “ When I returned, or would have returned, the captivity of my people, when I was about to come towards them in ways of mercy, even when I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim (the country and common people) was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, the court and the chief city.” Now…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. 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 th…