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Ecclesiastes 10:17
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
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Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
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Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
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Isaiah 28:7-8
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.
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Leviticus 10:9-10
“ Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
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Habakkuk 2:5
“ Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”
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Hosea 4:11-12
whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
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Daniel 5:2-4
Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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1 Kings 20 12
When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men,“ Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.
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Esther 3:15
The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.
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Hosea 7:3-5
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
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1 Kings 20 16-1 Kings 20 20
And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him,“ Men are coming out from Samaria.”He said,“ If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them.And each struck down his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
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Mark 6:21-28
But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl,“ Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”And he vowed to her,“ Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”And she went out and said to her mother,“ For what should I ask?” And she said,“ The head of John the Baptist.”And she came in immediately 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.”And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prisonand brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
