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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,

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Lev. 10:9‑10• ⁹Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
¹⁰And that ye may put difference between holy and 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 Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
¹⁶And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
¹⁷And the young men 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.
¹⁹So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which 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 an horse with the horsemen. (1 Kings 20:12,16‑20)

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

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Eccl. 10:17• ¹⁷Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the 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 they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
⁸For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. (Isa. 28:7‑8)

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Dan. 5:2‑4• ²Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
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 princes, 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• ¹¹Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
¹²My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused 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 are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. (Hos. 7:3‑5)

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Hab. 2:5• ⁵Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: (Hab. 2:5)

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Mark 6:21‑28• ²¹And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;
²²And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
²³And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.
²⁴And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
²⁵And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
²⁶And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
²⁷And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
²⁸And brought his head in a charger, 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."