Treasury of Scripture
messes.
2 Samuel 11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house...
was five times. Sir John Chardin observes, that in Persia, Arabia, and the Indies, there are some houses where they place several plates in large salvers, and set one of these before each person, or before two or three, according to the magnificence of each house. The great men of the state are always served by themselves, in the feasts that are made for themselves; and with great profusion, their part of each kind of provision being always double, treble, or a larger proportion of each kind of meat.
Genesis 45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver...
1 Samuel 1:5 But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
1 Samuel 9:22-24 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor...
were merry. Heb. drank largely.
Proverbs 31:6 Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that be of heavy hearts.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.
Ecclesiastes 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.
Songs 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey...
Habakkuk 1:6 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land...
Matthew 11:19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a drunkard, a friend of publicans and sinners...
John 2:10 And said to him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse...