1Sa 25:36-38, 2Sa 13:28-29, 1Ki 20:16, Pro 23:29-35, Jer 51:57 | TSK | STEP

Isa 54:15The Syrians, the besiegers, had their directions from a drunken king, who gave orders over his cups, while he was drinking at noon. Drunkenness is a sin which is most detestable in all, but more so in a king than in a private individual, inasmuch as the greater weight a man's situation carries, whether from accumulated riches, family connections, hereditary authority, or invested command, so is the influence which his vices must have on those around him. Perhaps it may be said, from past experience, that drunkenness, which is a most heinous sin in the sight of God, may be charged on those who indulge only now and then in that which may eventually lead them into drunkenness; for they shut their eyes against the most palpable facts, and rather than give up the paltry gratification of a debauch, involve thousands by their example to positive harm. Benhadad's drunkenness was the forerunner of his fall. Belshazzar also, we read, drank wine with his princes, his wives, and his concubines, and praised the gods of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone: and in the same hour came forth the finger of a man's hand and wrote his doom on the plaster of the wall. Those who fancy themselves perfectly secure, and above the possibility of falling, are commonly nearest their destruction: there is always an Ahab read to take advantage of and improve the self-imposed imbecility.

‏ Proverbs 23:29-35

Who hath woe.

21; 20:1; 1Sa 25:36,37; 2Sa 13:28; 1Ki 20:16-22; Isa 5:11,22

Isa 28:7,8; Na 1:10; Mt 24:49,50; Lu 12:45,46; Eph 5:18

redness.

Ge 49:12

tarry.

20:1; Ge 9:21; Isa 5:11; Am 6:6; Eph 5:18

mixed.That is, not wine diluted and lowered with water, but made stronger and more inebriating, by the addition of more powerful ingredients, as honey, spices, myrrh, defrutum, opiates, etc.

9:2; Ps 75:8

6:25; 2Sa 11:2; Job 33:1; Ps 119:37; Mt 5:28-30; Mr 9:47; 1Jo 2:16

At.

5:11; Isa 28:3,7,8; Jer 5:31; Ex 7:5,6,12; Lu 16:25,26; Ro 6:21

biteth.

Ec 10:8; Jer 8:17; Am 5:19; 9:3

an adder. or, a cockatrice.

Isa 59:5

eyes.

Ge 19:32-38

and.

31:5; Ps 69:12; Da 5:4; Ho 7:5; Jude 1:12,13