4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. …
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. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Most interpreters are of opinion that Lemuel is Solomon; the name signifies one that is for God , or devoted to God ; and so it agrees well enough with that honourable name which, by divine appointment, was given to Solomon (2 Sam. 12:25), Jedediah—beloved of the Lord . Lemuel is supposed to be a pretty, fond, endearing name, by which his mother used to call him; and so much did he value himself u…
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