Thematic Bible: Drunkards examples of


Thematic Bible



And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee; and put a knife to thy throat if thou art a man given to appetite.


Whatever is sold in the market, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake;

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to do works with ungodliness with the men that work iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.

It is not good to eat much honey, so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

And into whatever city ye enter and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you





receiving the reward of their unrighteousness, as those that count it pleasure to live luxuriously every day. These are spots and blemishes, who eat together with you, while at the same time they revel in their deceit,

envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told you in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.


For those that tarry long at the wine; those that go to seek mixed wine.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and there wasted his estate with riotous living.


As thorns sunk into the hand of one who is drunk, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.


The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

For while they are entwined together as thorns, and while the drunkards shall be drinking, they shall be devoured as stubble full of dryness.


And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink.

But and if that slave shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the menslaves and maids and to eat and drink and to be drunken,

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


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


And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the slaves of his lord but did not go down to his house.


And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.


Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, or much more excellent.


And his slave Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.




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


In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with a wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.