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1Sa 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

a feast		2Sa 13:23; Est 1:3-7; Luk 14:12
merry		2Sa 13:28; 1Ki 20:16; Pro 20:1; Pro 23:29-35; Ecc 2:2,3; Ecc 10:19; Isa 28:3,7,8; Jer 51:57; Dan 5:1-5; Nah 1:10; Hab 2:15,16; Luk 21:34; Rom 13:13; Eph 5:18; 1Th 5:7,8
she told him		1Sa 25:19; Psa 112:5; Mat 10:16; Eph 5:14

Correlating Passages

a feast

	2Sa 13:23	And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
	Est 1:3	In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, [being] before him:
	Est 1:4	When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, [even] an hundred and fourscore days.
	Est 1:5	And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
	Est 1:6	[Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
	Est 1:7	And they gave [them] drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
	Luk 14:12	Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor [thy] rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

merry

	2Sa 13:28	Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
	1Ki 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.
	Pro 20:1	Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
	Pro 23:29	Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
	Pro 23:30	They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
	Pro 23:31	Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
	Pro 23:32	At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
	Pro 23:33	Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
	Pro 23:34	Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
	Pro 23:35	They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
	Ecc 2:2	I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
	Ecc 2:3	I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
	Ecc 10:19	A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all [things].
	Isa 28:3	The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
	Isa 28:7	But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.
	Isa 28:8	For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].
	Jer 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.
	Dan 5:1	Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
	Dan 5:2	Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which [was] in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
	Dan 5:3	Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which [was] at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
	Dan 5:4	They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
	Dan 5:5	In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
	Nah 1:10	For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
	Hab 2:15	Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
	Hab 2:16	Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing [shall be] on thy glory.
	Luk 21:34	And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.
	Rom 13:13	Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
	Eph 5:18	And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
	1Th 5:7	For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
	1Th 5:8	But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

she told him

	1Sa 25:19	And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
	Psa 112:5	A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
	Mat 10:16	Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
	Eph 5:14	Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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