Hosea 7:5

In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

6Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burned up as a flame of fire.

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Cross References

1 Kings 13:4And it came to pass when King Jeroboam heard the words of the man of God who called on the altar that was in Bethel, that the king stretched forth his hand from the altar, saying, Take hold of him. And, behold, his hand, which he stretched forth against him, withered, and he could not draw it back to himself.

Proverbs 20:1Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: 1 But every fool is entangled with them. 1

Isaiah 5:11Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till the evening: for the wine shall inflame them.

Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

Matthew Henry on Hosea 7:2-8

Charge Drawn up against Israel; The Crimes of the Princes. ( b. c. 750.) 1 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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 They are… Read the whole commentary →

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