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     * Ben-hadad.
     # 11,12; 16:7; Pr 23:29-32; Ec 10:16,17; Ho 4:11|
     * the thirty.
     # Isa 54:15|
       The Syrians, the besiegers, had their directions from a
       drunken king, who gave orders over his cups, while he was
       drinking at noon.  Drunkenness is a sin which is most
       detestable in all, but more so in a king than in a private
       individual, inasmuch as the greater weight a man's situation
       carries, whether from accumulated riches, family connections,
       hereditary authority, or invested command, so is the influence
       which his vices must have on those around him.  Perhaps it may
       be said, from past experience, that drunkenness, which is a
       most heinous sin in the sight of God, may be charged on those
       who indulge only now and then in that which may eventually
       lead them into drunkenness; for they shut their eyes against
       the most palpable facts, and rather than give up the paltry
       gratification of a debauch, involve thousands by their example
       to positive harm.  Benhadad's drunkenness was the forerunner
       of his fall.  Belshazzar also, we read, drank wine with his
       princes, his wives, and his concubines, and praised the gods
       of gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone:  and in the
       same hour came forth the finger of a man's hand and wrote his
       doom on the plaster of the wall.  Those who fancy themselves
       perfectly secure, and above the possibility of falling, are
       commonly nearest their destruction:  there is always an Ahab
       read to take advantage of and improve the self-imposed
       imbecility.