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Ecclesiastes 10:17
Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of nobles 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, beer is a brawler, and whoever staggers because of them is not wise.
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Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, who are fearless at mixing beer,
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Isaiah 28:7-8
These also stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: priest and prophet stagger because of beer, they are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer, they are muddled in their visions, they stumble in their judgments.Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit; there is no place without a stench.
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Leviticus 10:9-10
“ You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.You must distinguish between the holy and the common, and the clean and the unclean,
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Habakkuk 2:5
Moreover, wine betrays; an arrogant man is never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself; he collects all the peoples for himself.
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Hosea 4:11-12
Promiscuity, wine, and new wine take away one’s understanding.My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.
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Daniel 5:2-4
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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1 Kings 20 12
When Ben-hadad heard this response, while he and the kings were drinking in the tents, he said to his servants,“ Take your positions.” So they took their positions against the city.
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Esther 3:15
The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.
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Hosea 7:3-5
They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.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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1 Kings 20 16-1 Kings 20 20
They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings who were helping him were getting drunk in the tents.The young men of the provincial leaders marched out first. Then Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, saying,“ Men are marching out of Samaria.”So he said,“ If they have marched out in peace, take them alive, and if they have marched out for battle, take them alive.”The young men of the provincial leaders and the army behind them marched out from the city,and each one struck down his opponent. So the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with the cavalry.
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Mark 6:21-28
Now 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.”So he swore oaths to her:“ Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”Then she went out and said to her mother,“ What should I ask for?”“ John the Baptist’s head!” she said.Immediately she hurried to the king and said,“ I want you to give me John the Baptist’s head on a platter— right now!”Though 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.
