Proverbs 31:4

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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

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  • Eccl 10:17 : 17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions. 8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.
  • Lev 10:9-9 : 9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations. 10 And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
  • Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom. 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
  • Mark 6:21-28 : 21 And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee; 22 And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you. 23 And he took an oath, saying to her, Whatever is your desire I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom. 24 And she went out and said to her mother, What is my request to be? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. 25 And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist. 26 And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her. 27 And straight away the king sent out one of his armed men, and gave him an order to come back with the head: and he went and took off John's head in prison, 28 And came back with the head on a plate, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother.
  • Hos 7:3-5 : 3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit. 4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened. 5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
  • 1 Kgs 20:12 : 12 Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.
  • 1 Kgs 20:16-20 : 16 And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him. 17 And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria. 18 And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living. 19 So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them. 20 And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.
  • Dan 5:2-4 : 2 Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them. 3 Then they took in the gold and silver vessels which had been in the Temple of the house of God at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, took wine from them. 4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

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  • Prov 31:5-7
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    5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

    7 Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.

  • Prov 31:1-3
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    1 The words of Lemuel, king of Massa: the teaching which he had from his mother.

    2 What am I to say to you, O Lemuel, my oldest son? and what, O son of my body? and what, O son of my oaths?

    3 Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

  • Eccl 10:16-17
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    16 Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

    17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Isa 5:22
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    22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

    31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

  • Prov 23:20-21
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    20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

    21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11 Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • Lev 10:9
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    9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

  • Joel 1:5
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    5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Isa 28:7
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    7 And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Hos 7:5
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    5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

  • Ezek 44:21
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    21 The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

  • Prov 19:10
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    10 Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

  • Prov 17:7
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    7 Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6 Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

  • Prov 17:26
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    26 To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

  • Isa 29:9
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    9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23 Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.

  • Num 6:3
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    3 He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.

  • Isa 51:21
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    21 So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:

  • Esth 1:7-8
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    7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

    8 And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

  • Jer 16:8
    67%

    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Prov 16:12
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    12 Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

  • Jer 35:6
    67%

    6 But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:

  • Jer 13:13
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    13 Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.

  • Dan 5:4
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    4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

  • 1 Sam 1:14
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    14 And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

  • Luke 5:39
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    39 And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • Amos 2:12
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    12 But to those who were separate you gave wine for drink; and to the prophets you said, Be prophets no longer.

  • Dan 5:1
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    1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

  • Isa 28:1
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    1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!

  • Eccl 8:4
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    4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?

  • Prov 21:17
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    17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • Job 34:18
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    18 He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;