John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hosea 7:5
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" F15 יום מלכנו "dies regis nostri", V. L. Calvin, Tigurine version, Tarnovius, Cocceius, Schmidt. ; and may be the words of the priests and false prophets, exciting the people to adultery; and may show by what... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hosea 7:1-7
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, in these verses, we may observe, I. A general idea given of the present state of Israel, Hos.... read more