1 Samuel 25:36

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

A feast

2 Samuel 13:23

Esther 1:3

Luke 14:12

Merry

She told him

General references

Proverbs 20:1

Luke 17:27

Bible References

A feast

Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and attendants, the army officers of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of his provinces being in his presence.

And He also went on to say to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, otherwise they may also invite you in return and that will be your repayment.

Merry

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,

And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

I said of laughter, “It is madness,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim is trodden under foot.

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”

Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

“Woe to you who make your neighbors drink,
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

Let us

behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

She told him

She said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”

General references

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,

And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.