Ecclesiastes 7:4
"The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
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- Matthew 8:14
"And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever."
Read in chapter → - Luke 7:12
"Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 25:36
"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."
Read in chapter → - Daniel 5:1
"Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 53:3
"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 7:5
"In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners."
Read in chapter → - 1 Kings 20:16
"And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 51:57
"And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts."
Read in chapter → - Nehemiah 2:2
"Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,"
Read in chapter → - Mark 6:21
"And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;"
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