4 O Lemuel, give kings no wine, give kings and princes no strong drink;
Proverbs 31:4 Cross References - MSTC
Leviticus 10:9-10
1 Kings 20:12
12 And when Benhadad heard that tidings, as he and the kings were drinking in the pavilions, he said unto his servants, "Put ye in array." And they put themselves in array against the city.
1 Kings 20:16-20
16 And they went out at noon when Benhadad was a drinking strong drink in the pavilions with the thirty two kings that holp him.
17 And the men of the sheriffs of the shires went out first. And Benhadad sent out, and they showed him, saying, "There came men out of Samaria."
18 And he said, "If they come out for peace, take them alive.
19 And also if they come for war, take them yet alive." And when those men of the sheriffs of the shires were come out of the city and the Host after them,
20 they slew every one of them his man. And the Syrians fled, and Israel followed after them. And Benhadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with his horsemen.
Esther 3:15
15 And the posts went in all the haste according to the king's commandment. And in the castle of Susa was the commandment devised. And the king and Haman sat and drank. But the city Susa was disquieted.
Proverbs 20:1
1 Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.
Ecclesiastes 10:17
17 But well is thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is come of nobles, and whose princes eat in due season, for strength and not for lust.
Isaiah 5:22
22 Woe be unto them that are cunning men to sup out wine and expert to set up drunkenness.
Isaiah 28:7-8
7 But they go wrong by the reason of wine, they fall and stagger because of strong drink. Yea even the priests and prophets themselves go amiss, they are drunken with wine, and weak brained through strong drink. They fail in prophesying, and stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are so full of vomit and filthiness, that no place is clean.
Daniel 5:2-4
2 and when he was drunken with wine, he commanded to bring him the golden and silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple at Jerusalem: that the king and his lords with his queen and concubines might drink thereout.
3 So they brought the golden vessel, that was taken out of the temple of the LORD's house at Jerusalem. Then the king and his lords with his queen and concubines drunk out of them.
4 They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.
Hosea 4:11-12
Hosea 7:3-5
3 They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies.
4 All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened.
5 Even so goeth it this day with our kings and princes, for they begin to be wood drunken through wine: they use familiarity with such as deceive them.
Habakkuk 2:5
5 Like as the wine deceiveth the drunkard, even so the proud shall fail and not endure. He openeth his desire wide up as the hell, and is as insatiable as death. All Heathen gathereth he to him, and heapeth unto him all people."
Mark 6:21-28
21 But when a convenient day was come: Herod on his birthday made a supper to the Lords, captains, and chief estates of Galilee.
22 And the daughter of the said Herodias came in and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat at board also. Then the king said unto the maiden, "Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee."
23 And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, even unto the one half of my kingdom."
24 And she went forth and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "John Baptist's head."
25 And 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 Baptist."
26 And the king was sorry. Yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat at supper also, he would not put her beside her purpose.
27 And immediately the king sent the hangman and commanded his head to be brought in.
28 And he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger and gave it to the maiden, and the maiden gave it to her mother.