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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
Ezechielis 7:5
extendit manum suam cum illusoribus.
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Et ecce bestia alia similis urso in parte stetit : et tres ordines erant in ore ejus, et in dentibus ejus, et sic dicebant ei : Surge, comede carnes plurimas.
Die regis nostri infirmi facti sunt principes ardore vini, quod apprehendit protervos.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the day: Genesis 40:20, Daniel 5:1-4, Matthew 14:6, Mark 6:21
made: Proverbs 20:1, Isaiah 5:11, Isaiah 5:12, Isaiah 5:22, Isaiah 5:23, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:7, Isaiah 28:8, Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:16, Ephesians 5:18, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 Peter 4:4
bottles of wine: or, heat through wine
he stretched: 1 Kings 13:4
with scorners: Psalms 1:1, Psalms 69:12, Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 23:29-35, Daniel 5:4, Daniel 5:23
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - princes Esther 3:15 - sat down Proverbs 23:33 - and Ecclesiastes 7:4 - the heart Ecclesiastes 10:16 - and Isaiah 28:14 - ye Hosea 3:1 - love flagons Acts 24:25 - temperance 2 Peter 3:3 - scoffers
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 calves, which might be kept as an anniversary: or, "it is the day of our king" o; and may be the words of the priests and false prophets, exciting the people to adultery; and may show by what means they drew them into it, saying this is the king's birthday, or coronation day, or a holy day of his appointing, let us meet together, and drink his health; and so by indulging to intemperance, through the heat of wine, led them on to adultery, corporeal or spiritual, or both:
the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine: that is, the courtiers who attended at court on such a day to compliment the king upon the occasion, and to drink his health, drank to him in large cups, perhaps a bottle of wine at once; which he pledging them in the same manner, made him sick or drunk: to make any man drunk is criminal, and especially a king; as it was also a weakness and sin in him to drink to excess, which is not for kings, of all men, to do: or it may be rendered, "the princes became sick through the heat of wine" p, so Jarchi; they were made sick by others, or they made themselves so by drinking too much wine, which inflamed their bodies, gorged their stomachs, made their heads dizzy, and them so "weak", as the word q also signifies, that they could not stand upon their legs; which are commonly the effects of excessive drinking, especially in those who are not used to it, as the king and the princes might not be, only on such occasions:
he stretched out his hand with scorners; meaning the king, who, in his cups, forgetting his royal dignity, used too much familiarity with persons of low life, and of an ill behaviour, irreligious ones; who, especially when drunk, made a jest of all religion; scoffed at good men, and everything that was serious; and even set their mouths against the heavens; denied there was a God, or spoke very indecently and irreverently of him; these the king made his drinking companions, took the cup, and drank to them in turn, and shook them by the hand; or admitted them to kiss his hand, and were all together, hail fellows well met. Joseph Kimchi thinks these are the same with the princes, called so before they were drunk, but afterwards "scorners".
o יום מלכנו "dies regis nostri", V. L. Calvin, Tigurine version, Tarnovius, Cocceius, Schmidt. p החלו שרים חמת מיין "argotarunt principes a calore vini", Liveleus; "morbo afficiunt se calore ex vino", Tarnovius. q "Quem infirmant principes aestu a vino", Cocceius; "infirmum facerunt", Munster; "infirmant", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 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 irreligious and anti-religious carousal; making themselves like “the brutes which perish,” and tempting their king first to forget his royal dignity, and then to blaspheme the majesty of God.
He stretched out his hand with scorners - as it is said, “Wine is a mocker” (or “scoffer”). Drunkenness, by taking off all power of self restraint, brings out the evil which is in the man. The “scorner” or “scoffer” is one who “neither fears God nor regards man” Luke 18:4, but makes a jest of all things, true and good, human or divine. Such were these corrupt princes of the king of Israel; with these “he stretched out the hand,” in token of his good fellowship with them, and that he was one with them. He withdrew his hand or his society from good and sober people, and “stretched” it “out,” not to punish these, but to join with them, as people in drink reach out their hands to any whom they meet, in token of their sottish would-be friendliness. With these the king drank, jested, played the buffoon, praised his idols, scoffed at God. The flattery of the bad is a man’s worst foe.
