Verse 22

For a seruant when he reigneth, & a foole when he is filled with meate,

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:10 : 10 Pleasure is not comely for a foole, much lesse for a seruant to haue rule ouer princes.
  • Eccl 10:7 : 7 I haue seene seruants on horses, and princes walking as seruants on the ground.
  • Isa 3:4-5 : 4 And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them. 5 The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A poore man, if he oppresse the poore, is like a raging raine, that leaueth no foode.
  • 1 Sam 25:3 : 3 The name also of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, & she was a woman of singular wisdome, and beautifull, but the man was churlish, and euil conditioned, and was of the familie of Caleb.
  • 1 Sam 25:10-11 : 10 Then Nabal answered Dauids seruantes, & sayd, Who is Dauid? And who is the sonne of Ishai? There be many seruantes nowe a dayes, that breake away euery man from his master. 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I haue killed for my sherers, and giue it vnto men, whom I know not whence they be?
  • 1 Sam 25:25 : 25 Let not my lorde, I pray thee, regard this wicked man Nabal: for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and follie is with him: but I thine handmayde sawe not the yong men of my lord whom thou sentest.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he made a feast in his house, like the feast of a King, and Nabals heart was mery within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore shee tolde him nothing, neither lesse nor more, vntil the morning arose. 37 Then in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife tolde him those wordes, and his heart died within him, and he was like a stone. 38 And about ten dayes after, the Lord smote Nabal, that he dyed.
  • 1 Sam 30:16 : 16 And when he had brought him thither, beholde, they lay scattered abroade vpon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dauncing, because of all the great pray that they had taken out of the lande of the Philistims, and out of the land of Iudah.