2 Samuel 13:28
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28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and [a]valiant.”
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- 2 Samuel 13:28 Lit. sons of valor
Judges 19:6
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6 So they sat down, and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the young woman’s father said to the man, “Please be content to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”
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Judges 19:22
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Gibeah’s Crime
22 As they were (A)enjoying themselves, suddenly (B)certain men of the city, (C)perverted[a] men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, (D)“Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!”
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- Judges 19:22 Lit. sons of Belial
Judges 19:9
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9 And when the man stood to depart—he and his concubine and his servant—his father-in-law, the young woman’s father, said to him, “Look, the day is now drawing toward evening; please spend the night. See, the day is coming to an end; lodge here, that your heart may be merry. Tomorrow go your way early, so that you may get [a]home.”
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- Judges 19:9 Lit. to your tent
1 Samuel 25:36-38
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36 Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, (A)holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 Then it happened, after about ten days, that the Lord (B)struck Nabal, and he died.
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Ruth 3:7
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7 And after Boaz had eaten and drunk, and (A)his heart was cheerful, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came softly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
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Acts 5:29
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29 But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: (A)“We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Luke 21:34
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The Importance of Watching(A)
34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.
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- Luke 21:34 dissipation
Nahum 1:10
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10 For while tangled (A)like thorns,
(B)And while drunken like drunkards,
(C)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
Daniel 5:30
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Belshazzar’s Fall
30 (A)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
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Daniel 5:2-6
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2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels (A)which his [a]father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought the gold (B)vessels that had been taken from the temple of the house of God which had been in Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine, (C)and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
5 (D)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his (E)knees knocked against each other.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or ancestor
Ecclesiastes 10:19
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19 A feast is made for laughter,
And (A)wine makes merry;
But money answers everything.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
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7 Go, (A)eat your bread with joy,
And drink your wine with a merry heart;
For God has already accepted your works.
Psalm 104:15
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15 And (A)wine that makes glad the heart of man,
Oil to make his face shine,
And bread which strengthens man’s heart.
Esther 1:10
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10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, (A)Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,
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1 Kings 20:16
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16 So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were (A)getting drunk at the command post.
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2 Samuel 11:15
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15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the [a]hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may (A)be struck down and die.”
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- 2 Samuel 11:15 fiercest
2 Samuel 11:13
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13 Now when David called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him (A)drunk. And at evening he went out to lie on his bed (B)with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.
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1 Samuel 28:13
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13 And the king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What did you see?”
And the woman said to Saul, “I saw (A)a[a] spirit ascending out of the earth.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:13 Heb. elohim
1 Samuel 28:10
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10 And Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, “As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”
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1 Samuel 22:17-18
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17 Then the king said to the guards who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled and did not tell it to me.” But the servants of the king (A)would not lift their hands to strike the priests of the Lord. 18 And the king said to Doeg, “You turn and kill the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and [a]struck the priests, and (B)killed on that day eighty-five men who wore a linen ephod.
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- 1 Samuel 22:18 attacked
Joshua 1:9
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9 (A)Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; (B)do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
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Numbers 22:16-17
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16 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me; 17 for I will certainly (A)honor you greatly, and I will do whatever you say to me. (B)Therefore please come, curse this people for me.’ ”
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Exodus 1:16-17
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16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a (A)son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.” 17 But the midwives (B)feared God, and did not do (C)as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
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Genesis 19:32-35
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32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we (A)may preserve the [a]lineage of our father.” 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, “Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the [b]lineage of our father.” 35 Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
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- Genesis 19:32 Lit. seed
- Genesis 19:34 Lit. seed
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