Cross references

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,

Proverbs 31:4 BSB

Proverbs 31:4 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 20:1 (12 votes) and Ecclesiastes 10:17 (9 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Leviticus 10 to Titus 1.

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Which verses does Proverbs 31:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  2. Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

  3. Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,

  4. to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding. My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

  5. They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk. And the young officers of the district governors marched out first. Now Ben-hadad had sent out scouts, who reported to him, “Men are marching out of Samaria.” …

  6. and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

  7. “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

  8. The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

  9. These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments. For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

  10. Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines. Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines. …

Which verses point to Proverbs 31:4?

The 10 strongest of 15.