- DROWN (Exodus 15:4; Amos 8:8; Hebrews 11:29). Drowning was a
mode of capital punishment in use among the Syrians, and was known to
the Jews in the time of our Lord. To this he alludes in Matthew 18:6. - DRUNK The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Genesis
9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly condemned
(Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians
5:7, 8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not uncommon
among the Israelites.
The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being drunk
with sorrow, and with the wine of God’s wrath (Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah
51:57; Ezekiel 23:33). To “add drunkenness to thirst” (Deuteronomy
29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised Version
“to destroy the moist with the dry”, i.e., the well-watered equally with the
dry land, meaning that the effect of such walking in the imagination of their
own hearts would be to destroy one and all.