Leviticus 10:9-
10 Do not drink wine nor
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die:
[it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations: ... And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
1 Kings 20:12 And it came to pass, when [
Benhadad] heard this
message, as he [
was] drinking, he and the kings in the
pavilions, that he said unto his servants,
Set [yourselves in array]. And they set [
themselves in array] against the city.
1 Kings 20:16-
20 And they went out at noon. But Benhadad [
was] drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings,
the thirty and two kings that helped him. ... And
they slew every one his man: and
the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria
escaped on an horse with the horsemen.
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being
hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman
sat down to drink; but
the city Shushan was perplexed.
Ecclesiastes 10:17 Blessed [
art] thou, O land,
when thy king [
is] the son of nobles,
and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Isaiah 28:7-
8 But they also have
erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they
are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they
err in vision, they stumble [
in] judgment. ... For all tables are full of vomit [
and] filthiness, [
so that there is] no place [
clean].
Daniel 5:2-
4 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring
the golden and silver vessels which his
father Nebuchadnezzar had
taken out of the temple which [
was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. ... They drank wine, and
praised the gods
of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Hosea 4:11-
12 Whoredom and wine and new wine
take away the heart. ... My people
ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them:
for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused [
them] to err, and they have
gone a whoring from under their God.
Hosea 7:3-
5 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. ... In
the day of our king the princes have
made [
him] sick with
bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand
with scorners.
Habakkuk 2:5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [
he is]
a proud man, neither
keepeth at home,
who enlargeth his desire
as hell, and [
is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but
gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Mark 6:21-
28 And
when a convenient day was come, that Herod on
his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief [
estates] of Galilee; ... And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.
