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Matthew 8:14-16
Jesus went into Peter’s house and saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.So he touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve him.When evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick,
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Luke 7:12-13
Just as he neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was also with her.When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said,“ Don’t weep.”
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John 11:31-35
The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and told him,“ Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died!”When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled.“ Where have you put him?” he asked.“ Lord,” they told him,“ come and see.”Jesus wept.
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Nehemiah 2:2-5
so the king said to me,“ Why do you look so sad, when you aren’t sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” I was overwhelmed with fearand replied to the king,“ May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”Then the king asked me,“ What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of the heavensand answered the king,“ If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor with you, send me to Judah and to the city where my ancestors are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
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1 Kings 20 16
They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings who were helping him were getting drunk in their quarters.
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1 Samuel 30 16
So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
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Mark 6:21-29
An opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet for his nobles, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee.When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl,“ Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”He promised her with an oath:“ Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”She went out and said to her mother,“ What should I ask for?”“ John the Baptist’s head,” she said.At once she hurried to the king and said,“ I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head on a platter immediately.”Although the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John’s head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl. Then the girl gave it to her mother.When John’s disciples heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb.
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Mark 5:38-43
They came to the leader’s house, and he saw a commotion— people weeping and wailing loudly.He went in and said to them,“ Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep.”They laughed at him, but he put them all outside. He took the child’s father, mother, and those who were with him, and entered the place where the child was.Then he took the child by the hand and said to her,“ Talitha koum”( which is translated,“ Little girl, I say to you, get up”).Immediately the girl got up and began to walk.( She was twelve years old.) At this they were utterly astounded.Then he gave them strict orders that no one should know about this and told them to give her something to eat.
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1 Samuel 25 36
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal’s heart was cheerful, and he was very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.
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Hosea 7:5
On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine— there is a conspiracy with traitors.
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2 Samuel 13 28
Now Absalom commanded his young men,“ Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and valiant!”
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Jeremiah 51:57
I will make her princes and sages drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the King’s declaration; the LORD of Armies is his name.
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Isaiah 21:4
My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.
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Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
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Daniel 5:1-4
King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.So they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Jeremiah 51:39
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Isaiah 53:3-4
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him.Yet he himself bore our sicknesses, and he carried our pains; but we in turn regarded him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
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Nahum 1:10
For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.
