In the day of our king, his birthday or the day of his inauguration, the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine, or, "the princes became ill with the heat of the wine"; he stretched out his hand with scorners, accepting their company with a ready spirit, making them his boon companions, so that everything which men hold sacred was dragged in the dust.
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...
CHAPTER 7 The Moral Depravity of Israel _ 1. Their moral depravity (Hosea 7:1) _ 2. Mingling with heathen nations (Hosea 7:8) Hosea 7:1. All the gracious efforts of the Lord to heal Israel resulted...
WICKEDNESS ENCOURAGED IN HIGH PLACES. King and princes gladly share in the prevailing wickedness adultery, drunkenness and the court itself is the scene of treachery, conspiracy, and assassinations. T...
IN THE DAY OF OUR KING. See 2 Kings 15:10. DAY. Perhaps. [feast] day. HIM. Supply "themselves" instead of "him". SICK, &C. Sick with the heat of wine. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....
Here the figurative description is interrupted by one from real life. _In the day of our king_ Either the coronation-day (so the Targum), or (comp. Matthew 14:6) the royal birthday is meant. The prop...
The highest personages are not too refined for the most sensual pleasures. A consuming passion inflames them as if with the heat of a furnace. Their way of celebrating a royal commemoration is to indu...
_ISRAEL CONTINUED IN INIQUITY -- HOSEA 7:1-6:_ God attempted to heal Israel through corrective discipline. To His sorrow God discovered that Israel only became worse and worse. Their sin was so eviden...
THE PRINCES, &C.— _The princes began to rage,_ or _to be overheated with wine,_ &c. Houbigant....
ISRAEL'S INGRATITUDELOVE OF SIN TEXT: Hosea 7:1-7 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief ente...
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. IN THE DAY OF OUR KING - his birthday, or day of inauguration. The weak and sot...
THE DAY.. KING] some royal feast, probably the king's birthday. HAVE.. WINE] RV 'made themselves sick with the heat of wine.' By their drunken carouse they heaped up fuel on the fire of their maliciou...
CORRUPTION OF THE COURT In this chapter the tone again becomes despondent. How can Israel be saved when her iniquity is so deep, so glaring, so obstinate? Samaria is especially instanced as the centr...
THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED LOVING HOSEA _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 7 V1 I want to heal my people Israel! Then people will know that *Ephraim has *sinned....
Following the hint of the LXX. and other versions, the rendering of which is based on a slightly different punctuation of the Hebrew, we prefer to translate, _the day of our king the princes have begu...
יֹ֣ום מַלְכֵּ֔נוּ הֶחֱל֥וּ שָׂרִ֖ים חֲמַ֣ת מִ...
A PEOPLE IN DECAY: 1 MORALLY Hosea 4:1 - Hosea 7:7 PURSUING the plan laid down in the last chapter, we now take the section of Hosea's discourse which lies between chapter 4 and Hosea 7:7. Chapter 4...
THE THICK NIGHT OF ISRAEL Hosea 4:1; Hosea 5:1; Hosea 6:1; Hosea 7:1; Hosea 8:1
4. WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES Hosea 7:3 There follows now a very difficult passage. The text is corrupt, and we have no means of determining what precise events are intended. The drift of meaning, ho...
INIQUITY UNCOVERED Hosea 7:1-16 The last clause of the previous chapter belongs to this. God desired to turn aside the captivity of His people and to heal Israel, but His pleading was unavailing beca...
The prophet then declared more particularly the true state of affairs. The divine desire to heal was frustrated by the pollution and the people's persistent ignoring of God. Hosea graphically describe...
In the (d) day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (d) They used all indulgence and excess in their feasts and solemnities, by...
Princes. The chief men joined in the schism and idolatry. (Worthington) --- Mad, with drinking at the king's coronation, or at his coming to the crown. (Calmet) --- Bacchus presents three cups to the...
I include all these verses under one view; for they are all to the same amount. They represent the same melancholy truth, only by different figures. The heart of man ready like an oven, always heated;...
The rest of the prophecy consists of the indignant appeals of the Holy Spirit to conscience because of the increasing evils of Israel not so much the judgment of God on a grand scale, and His grace at...
IX. HOSEA 7:8-9 (NASB) EPHRAIM MIXES HIMSELF WITH THE NATIONS; EPHRAIM HAS BECOME A CAKE NOT TURNED. 9 STRANGERS DEVOUR HIS STRENGTH, YET HE DOES NOT KNOW [IT]; GRAY HAIRS ALSO ARE SPRINKLED ON HIM,...
The Prophet here reproves especially the king and his courtiers. He had spoken of the whole people, and showed that the filth of evils was every where diffused: but he now relates how strangely the ki...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 6 AND 7. Chapter 6 calls forth a touching address from the prophet, in which he entreats the people to return to Jehovah. Faith has always this resource, beca...
IN THE DAY OF OUR KING,.... Either his birthday, or his coronation day, when he was inaugurated into his kingly office, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi; or the day on which Jeroboam set up the calve...
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. Ver. 5. _In the day of our king_] Our good king, on whom they so much doted, tha...
_In the day of our king_ Probably the anniversary of his birth, or coronation; _the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine_ Or, _when the princes began to be hot with wine_, (so Newcome,) _he...
WITH BOTTLES OF WINE: Or, with heat through wine...
1-7 A practical disbelief of 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 appear on every side of them. Their hearts were i...
IN THE DAY OF OUR KING: whether this day were any occasional day that the king of Israel took to feast his nobles, as Ahasuerus did his; or whether the anniversary of his birth or coronation, both whi...
Hosea 7:5 day H3117 king H4428 Princes H8269 sick H2470 (H8689) inflamed H2534 wine H3196 out H4900 ...
On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine, He stretched out his hand with scoffers.' And the people have the leadership that they deserve. On the ‘day of the king'...
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR KINGS ARE BOTH ALIKE, BURNING HOT IN THEIR SINS, IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH THEIR KINGS ARE ASSASSINATED ONE AFTER THE OTHER (HOSEA 7:3). Hosea now likens the people of Israel in the...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's response to Israel's, cry, continued. Israel's sad state. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: If sinful souls are not healed and helped, but perish in their sin and misery, they cannot...
Hosea 7:1. _When I would have healed Israel,_ by Jehu's zeal for the Lord, then the idolatrous priests, like troops of robbers, gathered round him with lies in their mouth, and persuaded him to retain...
HOSEA—NOTE ON HOSEA 7:4 Hosea compares Israel to an oven (vv. Hosea 7:4), a half-baked cake (vv. Hosea 7:8), a silly dove (vv....
CRITICAL NOTES.— HOSEA 7:4. OVEN] “In this passionate career the nation resembled a furnace which a baker heats in the evening and leaves burning all night while the dough is leavening, and then caus...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be divided into three sections. In the first section, including Hosea 7:1, the prophet reproves with much but deserved severity the depraved morals of king and princes. In...
The Lord continues His response to them. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in...
1 Kings 13:4; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Peter 4:4; Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:23;...
In the day of our king — Probably the anniversary of his birth or coronation. Stretched out his hand — In these drunken feasts it seems the king forgat himself, and stretched out his hand, with those...