Drunkenness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningDeuteronomy 21:20Deuteronomy 21:21Deuteronomy 29:19–211 Samuel 1:14Psalms 69:12Proverbs 20:1Proverbs 21:17Proverbs 23:20Proverbs 23:21Proverbs 23:29–35Proverbs 31:4–7Isaiah 5:11Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 5:22Isaiah 19:14Isaiah 24:9Isaiah 24:11Isaiah 28:1Isaiah 28:3Isaiah 28:7
• FIGURATIVEPsalms 73:10Psalms 75:8Isaiah 28:8Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 51:21–23Isaiah 63:6Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:27Jeremiah 25:28Jeremiah 51:7–9Lamentations 3:15Ezekiel 23:31–34Habakkuk 2:15Habakkuk 2:16
• See Abstinence
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• See Sobriety
• See Wine
• INSTANCES OF
• NoahGenesis 9:21
• LotGenesis 19:33
• Nabal1 Samuel 25:36
• Uriah2 Samuel 11:13
• Elah1 Kings 16:9

The passages, in Bible order (67)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 9:21

   But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

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   “After the deluge Noah drank and became drunk in his own house, and his thighs were uncovered and he was exposed in his nakedness. The elder brother came along and laughed; the younger, however, covered him up. All this is said in type of the Savior, for on the cross he had drunk of the passion: "Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me." He drank and was inebriated, and his thighs were laid bare—the dishonor of the cross. The older brothers, the Jews, came along and laughed; the younger, the Gentiles, covered up his ignominy.

   “When Christ says, "I am the true vine," the blood of Christ is assuredly not water but wine. We are redeemed and made alive by his blood. But in the cup it is not wine as such that redeems but his blood. This is declared by the sacrament and testimony of all the Scriptures. For we find this even in Genesis also, in respect of the sacrament prefigured in Noah. That he drank wine was to them a precursor and figure of the Lord's passion.

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2. Genesis 19:33

   So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

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   “After these things now that well-known story is related in which it is written that Lot's daughters cunningly lay with their father by stealth. In this matter I do not know if anyone can so excuse Lot as to free him from sin. Nor again do I think he should be so accused that he ought to become party to such serious incest. For I do not find him to have plotted against or to have violently snatched away the chastity of his daughters but rather to have been the victim of a plot and cunningly ensnared.

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3. Deuteronomy 21:20

   and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

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   “And they shall say unto the elders of his city,....

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4. Deuteronomy 21:21

   Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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   “And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die,....

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5. Deuteronomy 29:19–21

   because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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   “And it cometh to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,....

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6. 1 Samuel 1:12–16

   As Hannah kept on praying before the LORD, Eli watched her mouth.

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   “(Moral Exposition) But because we have said these last things about the history, we are not acting amiss if we examine our learning somewhat more carefully in these words of sacred history. If therefore the order of events is sought, she first ate and drank, then had a bitter spirit, prayed to the Lord weeping abundantly, afterward made a vow, and multiplied her prayers. What does the multiplication of Anna's prayers signify, except that perfection of the elect to which the excellent Teacher exhorts us, saying: "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17)?

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7. 1 Samuel 1:14

   and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

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   “This Hannah does in the first book of Kings [Samuel], portraying a type of the church, [she] prays to God not with a noisy petition but silently and modestly within the very recesses of her heart. She spoke with a hidden prayer but with manifest faith. She did not speak with the voice but with the heart, because she knew that so the Lord hears, and she effectually obtained what she sought, because she asked with faith.

   “29. The wine with which Anna was drunk would have been digested, if the holy Church, overcome by the threats of the Jews, had grown lukewarm from the fervor of preaching. And because they were striving to withdraw from her the understanding of preaching, Anna is commanded to digest the wine for a little while. Did not Eli then command Anna to digest, when the princes of the Jews, having beaten the apostles, ordered them, saying that they should no longer speak in the name of Jesus?

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8. 1 Samuel 25:36

   When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 25:361 voice

   “But to a mind that is drunk with fury every right thing that is said appears wrong. Whence to Nabal when he was drunk Abigail laudably kept silence about his fault, but, when he had digested his wine, as laudably told him of it. For he could for this reason perceive the evil he had done, that he did not hear of it when drunk.

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9. 2 Samuel 11:13

   Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:132 voices

   “We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder. Therefore, it was our desire to review the history itself, which seems to have been exposed to sin.

   “And when David had called him,....

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10. 1 Kings 16:9

    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

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    “And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots,....

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11. 1 Kings 20:16

    They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.

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    “And they went out at noon,....

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12. Esther 1:10

    On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—

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    "So on the seventh day when the king was very festive, and after he had drunk too much and grown heated from the wine, he ordered Mehuman, and Biztha, and Harbona, and Bigtha, and Abigtha, and Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who ministered in …

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13. Esther 1:11

    to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

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    "So on the seventh day when the king was very festive, and after he had drunk too much and grown heated from the wine, he ordered Mehuman, and Biztha, and Harbona, and Bigtha, and Abigtha, and Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who ministered in …

    “To bring Vashti the queen before the king,.... Not against her will, or by force; but they were sent to let her know it was the king's pleasure that she should come to him immediately: with the crown royal; that is, upon her head, to make her look the more grand and majestic: to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look upon; which was not wisely done, neither was it comely nor safe.

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14. Psalms 69:12

    Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

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    “They that sit in the gate speak against me,....

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15. Psalms 73:10

    So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

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    “Therefore his people return hither,....

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16. Psalms 75:8

    For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 75:81 voice

    “The cup of the Lord is at any rate "filled with mixed wine." Although it is constantly drunk, nonetheless it is never fully drained. But when he says "mixed wine," he is pointing to the New and Old Testaments, which make a salvific drink for …

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