In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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…
Cambridge Bible
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. Mat 14:6) the royal birthday is meant. The prophet…
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