| Geneva Study Bible In the {d} day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (d) They used all indulgence and excess in their feasts and solemnities, by which their king was overcome with being fed too much, and brought into diseases, and who delighted in flatteries. Wesley's Notes 7:5 In the day of our king - Probably the anniversary of his birth or coronation. Stretched out his hand - In these drunken feasts it seems the king forgat himself, and stretched out his hand, with those who deride religion, and with confusion to the professors of it. King James Translators' Notes bottles...: or, heat through wine Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. the day of our king-his birthday or day of inauguration. have made him sick-namely, the king. Maurer translates, "make themselves sick." with bottles of wine-drinking not merely glasses, but bottles. Maurer translates, "Owing to the heat of wine." he stretched out his hand with scorners-the gesture of revellers in holding out the cup and in drinking to one another's health. Scoffers were the king's boon companions. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 7:1-7 A practical disbelief of God's government was at the bottom of all israel's wickedness; as if God could not see it or did not heed it. Their sins appear on every side of them. Their hearts were inflamed by evil desires, like a heated oven. In the midst of their troubles as a nation, the people never thought of seeking help from God. The actual wickedness of men's lives bears a very small proportion to what is in their hearts. But when lust is inwardly cherished, it will break forth into outward sin. Those who tempt others to drunkenness never can be their real friends, and often design their ruin. Thus men execute the Divine vengeance on each other. Those are not only heated with sin, but hardened in sin, who continue to live without prayer, even when in trouble and distress. | 
