From Nave’s Topical Bible
Abstinence, Total
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 20Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- FROM INTOXICATING BEVERAGESLeviticus 10:8–10Numbers 6:3Numbers 6:4Judges 13:4Judges 13:13Judges 13:14Esther 1:8Proverbs 23:20Proverbs 23:31Proverbs 23:32Proverbs 31:4Jeremiah 35:6–8Jeremiah 35:14Luke 1:15
- INSTANCES OF
- Israelites in the wildernessDeuteronomy 29:6
- Samson with 13:3-5,13,14Judges 16:17Numbers 6:3Numbers 6:4
- DanielDaniel 1:8Daniel 1:12
- RechabitesJeremiah 35:6–14
- John the BaptistMatthew 11:18Luke 1:15Luke 7:33
- See Temperance
The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Numbers 6:3
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
Commentary on Numbers 6:31 voice
No vinegar of wine, etc. - חמץ chomets signifies fermented wine, and is probably used here to signify wine of a strong body, or any highly intoxicating liquor. Dr. Lightfoot supposes that the Leper being the most defiled and loathsome of creatures, was an emblem of the wretched, miserable state of man by the fall; and that the Nazarite was the emblem of man in his state of innocence.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Numbers 6:4
All the days of his separation, he is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the seeds or skins.
- Deuteronomy 29:6
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:61 voice
Ye have not eaten bread - Common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither drank wine - But only water out of the rock. The Lord - Omnipotent and all-sufficient for your provision without the help of any creatures, and your God in covenant with you who hath a true affection to you, and fatherly care of you.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Judges 13:4
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
Commentary on Judges 13:41 voice
Beware - drink not wine - As Samson was designed to be a Nazarite from the womb, it was necessary that, while his mother carried and nursed him, she should live the life of a Nazarite, neither drinking wine nor any inebriating liquor, nor eating any kind of forbidden meat. See the account of the Nazarite and his vow in the notes on Num 6:2 (note), etc.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Judges 13:13
So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
- Judges 13:14
She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
Commentary on Judges 13:141 voice
Compare Num 6:4. In both passages the vine is described by the somewhat unusual though more accurate term, “vine of the wine” - the grape-bearing vine - to distinguish it from the wild cucumber vine 2Ki 4:39, or other plants to which the name vine was applied.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Judges 16:17
Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”
Commentary on Judges 16:171 voice
If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me - The miraculous strength of Samson must not be supposed to reside either in his hair or in his muscles, but in that relation in which he stood to God as a Nazarite, such a person being bound by a solemn vow to walk in a strict conformity to the laws of his Maker. It was a part of the Nazarite’s vow to permit no razor to pass on his head; and his long hair was the mark of his Nazirate, and of his vow to God.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Esther 1:8
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
Commentary on Esther 1:82 voices
None did compel: for so the king had appointed - Every person drank what he pleased; he was not obliged to take more than he had reason to think would do him good. Among the Greeks, each guest was obliged to keep the round, or leave the company: hence the proverb Η πιθι, η απιθι; Drink or begone. To this Horace refers, but gives more license: - Pasco libatis dapibus; prout cuique libido est. Siccat inaequales calices conviva, solutus Legibus insanis: seu quis capit acria fortis Pocula; seu modicis humescit aetius. Horat. Sat. lib. ii., s. vi., ver.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
This caution of a heathen prince, even when he would show his generosity, may shame many who are called Christians, who think they do not sufficiently show their good housekeeping, nor bid their friends welcome, unless they make them drunk, and, under pretence of sending the health round, send the sin round, and death with it.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Proverbs 23:20
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:202 voices
Be not among winebibbers - There is much of this chapter spent in giving directions concerning eating, drinking, and entertainments in general. 1. he pupil is directed relative to the manner in which he is to conduct himself in his visits to the tables of the rich and great. 2. Relative to the covetous and his intercourse with them. And 3. To public entertainnlents, where there were generally riot and debauch. The reasons, says Calmet, which induced the wise man to give these directions were, 1. The useless expense. 2. The loss of time. 3. The danger from bad company.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
Drunkenness is the cause of drowsiness; it stupefies men, and makes them inattentive to business, and then all goes to wreck and ruin: thus men that have lived creditably come to be clothed with rags. This is another sin which takes away the heart that should be given to God, Hos. iv. He shows the danger which attends that sin,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Proverbs 23:31
Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:312 voices
Look not thou upon the wine - Let neither the color, the odour, the sparkling, etc., of the wine, when poured out, induce thee to drink of it. However good and pure it may be, it will to thee be a snare, because thou art addicted to it, and hast no self-command.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
Red wine was in Canaan looked upon as the best wine, it is therefore called the blood of the grape. Critics judge of wine, among other indications, by the colour of it; some wine, they say, looks charmingly, looks so well that it even says, "Come and drink me;" it moves itself aright, goes down very smoothly, or perhaps the roughness of it is grateful.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:321 voice
To take off the force of the temptation that there is in the pleasure of the sin, foresee the punishment of it, and what it will at last end in if repentance prevent not. In its latter end it bites (so the word is); think therefore what will be in the end thereof. But the inspired writer chooses to specify those pernicious consequences of this sin which are present and sensible.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Proverbs 31:4
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
Commentary on Proverbs 31:41 voice
Some read: “nor for princes to say, Where is strong drink?” The “strong drink” Pro 20:1 was distilled from barley, or honey, or dates.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Jeremiah 35:6–8
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
Commentary on Jeremiah 35:6–82 voices
This case affords no justification for slavish deference to the religious opinions of the Christian fathers: for Jonadab's injunction only affected matters of the present life; moreover, it was not binding on their consciences, for they deemed it not unlawful to go to Jerusalem in the invasion (Jer 35:11).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
The sons of Jonadab, we are told, drank neither wine nor strong drink and dwelled in tents pitched wherever night overtook them. According to the Psalter, they were the first to undergo captivity; for, when the Chaldaeans began to ravage Judah, they were compelled to take refuge in cities.Others may think what they like and follow each his own bent. But to me a town is a prison and solitude paradise. Why do we long for the bustle of cities, we whose very name speaks of loneliness?
Jerome· LETTER 125.7-8Patristic
- Jeremiah 35:14
The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!
Commentary on Jeremiah 35:142 voices
The God of all commands the prophet to tell all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "These people refuse to drink wine because they keep the commandment of their father, but you do not conduct yourselves according to my laws, although you receive the teachings of the …
Theodoret of Cyrus· ON JEREMIAH 7:35.6-7Patristic
The words of Jonadab - are performed - but ye hearkened not unto me - The Lord, knowing the fidelity of this people, chose to try them in this way, that he might, by their conscientious obedience to the precepts of their forefathers, show the Jews, to their confusion, their ingratitude to him, and their neglect of his precepts, which if a man do, he shall live by them.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Daniel 1:8
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Commentary on Daniel 1:81 voice
But Daniel - would not defile himself - I have spoken of this resolution in the introduction. The chief reasons why Daniel would not eat meat from the royal table were probably these three: - 1. Because they ate unclean beasts, which were forbidden by the Jewish law. 2. Because they ate, as did the heathens in general, beasts which had been strangled, or not properly blooded. 3. Because the animals that were eaten were first offered as victims to their gods.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical