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1 Samuel 25:36

1 Samuel 25:36 is verse 36 of 1 Samuel chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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.

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King James Version

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

World English Bible

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

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1 Samuel 25:34–38 · Berean Standard Bible

34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, then surely no male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by morning light.”

35 Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”

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.

37 In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him and he became like a stone.

38 About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

Esther 1:3

In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

Esther 1:4

And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.

Esther 1:5

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

Esther 1:6

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Esther 1:7

Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.

Luke 14:12

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

2 Samuel 13:28

Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”

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.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 23:29

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Proverbs 23:30

Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

Proverbs 23:31

Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Proverbs 23:34

You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast:

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I sought to cheer my body with wine and to embrace folly—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—until I could see what was worthwhile for men to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 10:19

A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

Isaiah 28:3

The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 28:7

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Isaiah 28:8

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Daniel 5:1

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Daniel 5:2

Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

Daniel 5:3

Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.

Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:5

At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Nahum 1:10

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Habakkuk 2:15

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Habakkuk 2:16

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

Luke 21:34

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

1 Samuel 25:19

and said to her young men, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Psalms 112:5

It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

Matthew 10:16

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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