Thematic Bible: Drunkards examples of


Thematic Bible



Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear,

Whenever you sit down to dine with a ruler, carefully think about what is before you. Put a knife to your own throat, if you have a big appetite.


Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising any question about it on the grounds of conscience,

Don't let my heart turn toward evil or involve itself in wicked activities with men who practice iniquity. Let me not feast on their delicacies.

To eat too much honey isn't good; and neither is it honorable to seek one's own glory.

"Whenever you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat whatever they serve you,





suffering harm as punishment for their wrongdoing. They take pleasure in wild parties in broad daylight. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while they eat with you.

envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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


Those who linger over their wine, who consume mixed drinks.



A thorn in the hand of a drunkard that's what a proverb quoted by a fool is.


With hands and feet, that proud garland those drunks of Ephraim will be trampled.

"Wake up, you drunkards! Cry aloud and howl, you wine drinkers, because your supply of new wine has been snatched from you.

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


They cast lots for my people they sold a young boy in exchange for a prostitute, and a girl for wine, so they could drink."

But if that servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time to come back,' and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk.


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.


Then at David's invitation, he and Uriah dined and drank wine together, and David got him drunk. Later that evening, Uriah went out to lie on a couch in the company of his lord's servants, and he did not go down to his house.


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.


""Come!' they say, "let's have some wine, and let's fill ourselves with strong drink! Then, tomorrow will be like today, or even much better!'"


But his servant Zimri, who commanded half of his chariot forces, conspired against Elah while he was drinking himself drunk in the home of Arza, who managed the household at Tirzah.




A week later, when the king was under the influence of all that wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasuerus,


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


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