Lev 10:9-10, 1Ki 20:12, 16-20, Est 3:15, Ecc 10:17, Isa 28:7-8 | TSK | STEP | Do not. strong drink.The Hebrew {shecher,} Arabic {sakar,} or {sukr,} Greek [sikera,] from {shachar,} to inebriate, signifies any kind of fermented and inebriating liquor beside wine. So St. Jerome informs us, that {sicera} in Hebrew denotes any inebriating liquor, whether made of corn, the juice of apples, honey, dates, or any other fruit. These different kinds of liquors are described by Pliny, who calls then {vina factitia}. One of the four prohibited drinks among the Mohammedans in India is called {sakar,} which denotes inebriating liquor in general, but especially date wine. it shall be.

Leviticus 10:9-10

Do not.

Nu 6:3,20; Pr 31:4,5; Isa 28:7; Jer 35:5,6; Eze 44:21; Lu 1:15

strong drink.The Hebrew {shecher,} Arabic {sakar,} or {sukr,} Greek [sikera,] from {shachar,} to inebriate, signifies any kind of fermented and inebriating liquor beside wine. So St. Jerome informs us, that {sicera} in Hebrew denotes any inebriating liquor, whether made of corn, the juice of apples, honey, dates, or any other fruit. These different kinds of liquors are described by Pliny, who calls then {vina factitia}. One of the four prohibited drinks among the Mohammedans in India is called {sakar,} which denotes inebriating liquor in general, but especially date wine.

it shall be.

3:17

11:47; 20:25,26; Jer 15:19; Eze 22:26; 44:23; Tit 1:15; 1Pe 1:14-16

1 Kings 20:12

message. Heb. word. drinking.

16; 16:9; 1Sa 25:36; 2Sa 13:28; Pr 31:4,5; Da 5:2,30; Lu 21:34

Eph 5:18

pavilions. or, tents.That persons of regal dignity regaled themselves in this manner, we may learn from Dr. Chandler, who, when he went to visit the Aga of Suki, after his return from hawking, found him vexed and tired; and "a couch was prepared from him beneath a shed made against a cottage, and covered with green boughs to keep off the sun. He entered as we were standing by, and fell down on it to sleep, without taking any notice of us."

Jer 43:10

Set yourselves in array. And they set, etc. or, Place theengines. And they placed engines.

1 Kings 20:16-20

Ben-hadad.

11,12; 16:7; Pr 23:29-32; Ec 10:16,17; Ho 4:11

the thirty.

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.

14,15,19

1Sa 2:3,4; 14:11,12; 17:44; 2Ki 14:8-12; Pr 18:12

they slew.

2Sa 2:16; Ec 9:11

the Syrians.

Le 26:8; Jud 7:20-22; 1Sa 14:13-15; 2Ki 7:6,7; Ps 33:16; 46:6

escaped.

1Sa 30:16,17; 2Ki 19:36