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GENESIS Chapters 9-11 June 29, 2003
GENESISChapters 9-11
June 29, 2003
Exodus 21:28
If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull must be stoned to death, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the
bull will not be held responsible.
Nazarite Vow
Numbers 6:3
he must abstain from wine and other fermented drink and must
not drink vinegar made from wine or from other fermented
drink.
Priests before church
Leviticus 10:9
You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented
drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die.
This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
Drunkenness
Isaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at
mixing drinks.
Drunkenness
Proverbs 21:17
He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich.
Drunkenness
Proverbs 23:20
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves
on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and
drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Drunkenness
Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual
immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Drunkenness
Galatians 5:21
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom
of God.
Drunkenness
Galatians 5:21
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom
of God.
Priests and Prophets
Isaiah 28:7
Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with
wine; they reel from beer, they stagger when seeing visions, they stumble when rendering
decisions.
Self-exposure
Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the
wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked
bodies.
Self-exposure
Genesis 19:33
That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older
daughter went in and lay with him.
Analogous to Judgment
Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who live in the land
of Uz. But to you also the cup will be passed; you will be drunk
and stripped naked.
Analogous to Judgment
Isaiah 63:6
I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on
the ground."
Analogous to Judgment
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make her officials and wise men drunk, her governors,
officers and warriors as well; they will sleep forever and not
awake," declares the King.
Drinking not condemned
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful
heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.
Drinking not condemned
John 2:9
and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been
turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from,
though the servants who had drawn the water knew.
Drinking not condemned
Psalm 104:15
wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine,
and bread that sustains his heart.
Drinking not condemned
Deuteronomy 11:14
then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may
gather in your grain, new wine and oil.
Drinking not condemned
1 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your
stomach and your frequent illnesses.
He points out that, according to 10:22, Elam was the eldest son of Shem, and according to 14:4, the Canaanite cities “served” (were slaves to, db[) Elam.
Among Elam’s allies (14:1, 9) were the Goiim, a Japhetic group (10:5).
Wenham, Gordon J., Word Biblical Commentary,
Volume 1: Genesis 1-15, (Dallas, Texas: Word Books, Publisher) 1998.
Shem 100 500 600Arphaxad 35 403 438Shelah 30 403 433Eber 34 430 464Peleg 30 209 239Reu 32 207 239Serug 30 200 230Nahor 29 119 148Terah 70 125 205Abram 175
Shem
ShelahEber
All outlived Abraham!
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people
are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out
like a tent to live in.
