Ecclesiastes 7:4

For the wise person thinks carefully when in mourning, but fools focus their thoughts on pleasure.

1 Samuel 25:36

Abigail returned to Nabal, and he was there in his house holding a festival like the festival of a king. Nabal's heart was glad, and he was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything at all until morning.

1 Samuel 30:16

The Egyptian led him to the camp, and there the Amalekites were spread out over the whole area, eating, drinking, and celebrating with the great amount of spoil they had taken from the territory belonging to the Philistines and to Judah.

2 Samuel 13:28

Then Absalom instructed his young men, "Please keep watching Amnon until he's drunk. Then I'll tell you, "Attack Amnon!' As soon as I do, kill him and don't be afraid! You have your orders, so be strong and brave!"

1 Kings 20:16

They attacked at noon, just as Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the battle pavilions, along with the 32 kings who had joined him.

Nehemiah 2:2-5

The king asked me, "Why do you look so troubled, since you're not ill? This cannot be anything else but troubles of the heart."

Isaiah 21:4

And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble.

Isaiah 53:3-4

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57

I'll make their leaders, their wise men, their governors, their deputies, and their warriors drunk so that they sleep forever and don't wake up," declares the King whose name is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

Daniel 5:1-4

King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all one thousand of them in getting drunk.

Daniel 5:30

That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,

Hosea 7:5

"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.

Nahum 1:10

Indeed, while tangled as by a thorn bush, while drunken as by a strong drink, the Ninevites will be burned like dry straw.

Matthew 8:14-16

When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.

Mark 5:38-43

When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

Mark 6:21-29

An opportunity came during Herod's birthday celebration, when he gave a banquet for his top officials, military officers, and the most important people of Galilee.

Luke 7:12-13

As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.

John 11:31-35

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

General references

Bible References

Heart

Nehemiah 2:2
The king asked me, "Why do you look so troubled, since you're not ill? This cannot be anything else but troubles of the heart."
Isaiah 53:3
"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.
Matthew 8:14
When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.
Mark 5:38
When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.
Luke 7:12
As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
John 11:31
When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

General references

Jeremiah 16:8
Don't go to a banquet to sit with people to eat and drink."

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