THEOSISProverbs 31:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:
אַ֤ל לַֽמְלָכִ֨ים ׀ לְֽמוֹאֵ֗ל אַ֣ל לַֽמְלָכִ֣ים שְׁתוֹ־יָ֑יִן וּ֝לְרוֹזְנִ֗ים או אֵ֣י שֵׁכָֽר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 20:1Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.
- Eccl 10:17Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.
- Isa 5:22Woe to you that are mighty to drink wine, and stout men at drunkenness.
- Hos 4:11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.
- Hos 4:12My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them, and they have committed fornication against their God.
- Hab 2:5And as wine deceiveth him that drinketh it: so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be honoured: who hath enlarged his desire like hell: and is himself like death, and he is never satisfied: but will gather together unto him all nations, and heap together unto him all people.
- Lev 10:9You shall not drink wine nor any thing that may make drunk, thou nor thy sons, when you enter into the tabernacle of the testimony, lest you die. Because it is an everlasting precept; through your generations:
- Lev 10:10And that you may have knowledge to discern between holy and unholy, between unclean and clean: