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Prov. 31:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

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Lemuel,

Prince; Princess,

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Lev. 10:9‑10• ⁹Thou shalt not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye die--it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations,
¹⁰that ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between unclean and clean, (Lev. 10:9‑10)

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1 Kings 20:12,16‑20• ¹²And it came to pass when he heard this word, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the tents, that he said to his servants, Set yourselves. And they set themselves against the city.
¹⁶And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.
¹⁷And the servants of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-Hadad sent out, and they told him saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
¹⁸And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
¹⁹And these servants of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army that followed them.
²⁰And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen. (1 Kings 20:12,16‑20)

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Esther 3:15• ¹⁵The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was in consternation. (Esther 3:15)

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Eccl. 10:17• ¹⁷Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! (Eccl. 10:17)

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Isa. 28:7‑8• ⁷But these also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are they gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are overpowered by wine, they are gone astray through strong drink; they have erred in vision, they have stumbled in judgment.
⁸For all tables are full of filthy vomit, so that there is no more place. (Isa. 28:7‑8)

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Dan. 5:2‑4• ²Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, might drink in them.
³Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
⁴They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. (Dan. 5:2‑4)

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Hos. 4:11‑12• ¹¹Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
¹²My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God: (Hos. 4:11‑12)

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Hos. 7:3‑5• ³They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
⁴They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
⁵In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners. (Hos. 7:3‑5)

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Hab. 2:5• ⁵And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples. (Hab. 2:5)

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Mark 6:21‑28• ²¹And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee;
²²and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with him at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.
²³And he swore to her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask me I will give thee, to half of my kingdom.
²⁴And she went out, and said to her mother, What should I ask? And she said, The head of John the baptist.
²⁵And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.
²⁶And the king, while made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with him would not break his word with her.
²⁷And immediately the king, having sent one of the guard, ordered his head to be brought. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,
²⁸and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother. (Mark 6:21‑28)

• He who would rule well over a nation, must first be master of himself. It was here that Noah failed when set over the renewed earth. Earnestly Bathsheba warns her son of the evil effects that follow intemperate indulgence in wine and strong drink. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulersf to say, Where is the strong drinkg?

JND Translation Notes

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f

As ch. 8.15.

g

Some read "to desire strong drink."