Proverbs 31:4
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4 (A)It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes intoxicating drink;
Proverbs 20:1
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Wine Is a Mocker
20 Wine (A)is a mocker,
Strong drink is a brawler,
And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Isaiah 5:22
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22 Woe to men mighty at drinking wine,
Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink,
Ecclesiastes 10:17
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17 Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles,
And your (A)princes feast at the proper time—
For strength and not for drunkenness!
Hosea 4:11-12
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The Idolatry of Israel
11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (A)enslave the heart.
12 My people ask counsel from their (B)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (C)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod
Habakkuk 2:5
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Woe to the Wicked
5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he (A)enlarges his desire as [a]hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 2:5 Or Sheol
1 Kings 20:16-20
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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. 17 The young leaders of the provinces went out first. And Ben-Hadad sent out a patrol, and they told him, saying, “Men are coming out of Samaria!” 18 So he said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.”
19 Then these young leaders of the provinces went out of the city with the army which followed them. 20 And each one killed his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the cavalry.
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Mark 6:21-28
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21 (A)Then an opportune day came when Herod (B)on his birthday gave a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 22 And when Herodias’ daughter herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.” 23 He also swore to her, (C)“Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”
24 So she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?”
And she said, “The head of John the Baptist!”
25 Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
26 (D)And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her. 27 Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison, 28 brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.
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Hosea 7:3-5
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4 “They(C) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
5 In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [a]inflamed with (D)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:5 Lit. with the heat of
Daniel 5:2-4
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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.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or ancestor
Isaiah 28:7-8
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7 But they also (A)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
(B)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filth;
No place is clean.
Esther 3:15
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15 The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in [a]Shushan the [b]citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but (A)the city of Shushan was [c]perplexed.
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- Esther 3:15 Or Susa
- Esther 3:15 palace
- Esther 3:15 in confusion
Leviticus 10:9-10
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9 (A)“Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, 10 that you may (B)distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,
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1 Kings 20:12
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12 And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings were (A)drinking at the [a]command post, that he said to his servants, “Get ready.” And they got ready to attack the city.
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- 1 Kings 20:12 Lit. booths or shelters
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