Thematic Bible: Drunkards examples of


Thematic Bible



He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you; put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.


Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.


Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.





receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.


Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.


Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.


The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.


and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.


Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.


When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.


They went out at noon. But Ben Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings who helped him.


"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."


His servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:




On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,


On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.