Hosea 7:5

On our king’s festival day, the princes are flushed with fever from wine. He stretched forth his hand with the contemptuous,

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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

4since they are all of them adulterers. Their desire to do evil burns like an oven heated by the baker, so hot that he need not stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it rises.

6for like an oven their heart burns with treachery, all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes into a flame of fire.

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Cross References

Psalms 69:12Those who sit in the gate make sport of me in the music of drunken songs.

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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