Systematic of Scriptures on Wine and Drunkenness

Systematic of Scriptures on Wine, Strong Drink, and Drunkenness

I. Systematic statistics of Biblical Passages Concerning Wine, Strong Drink, and Drunkenness

A. Biblical Statistics

250 Passages that mention drinking wine or strong drink

48% Presented in negative light or warnings against it.
30% Presented in a neutral way - Neither good or bad. Consumption was mentioned as a fact of life. They had little good drinking water and alcohol was a way to insure safe liquid.
16% In positive light.
.08% Is giving offerings

There are 3 to 1 warnings over the positive effects of drinking
101 Negative - Drinking wine or strong drink associated with negative events or in a negative light
20 Warning against - Specific warnings to stay away from wine, drinking, or drunkenness
75 Neutral - Drinking wine is a normal part of life
35 Positive - Wine and drinking presented for positive benefits
19-Offering - Wine or strong drink given as offerings to the Lord

B. Biblical passages and their implications

Negative Genesis 9:21 NASB He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent… Genesis 9:24 NASB When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest son had done to him.

Neutral Genesis 14:18 NASB And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.

Negative Genesis 19:32-35 NASB “Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him that we may preserve our family through our father. 33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 On the following day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve our family through our father.” 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Neutral Genesis 27:25-37 NASB So he said, “Bring it to me, and I will eat of my son’s game, that I may bless you.” And he brought it to him, and he ate; he also brought him wine and he drank….28 Now may
God give you of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And an abundance of grain and new wine…37 But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

Neutral Genesis 49:11-12 NASB “He ties his foal to the vine, And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
He washes his garments in wine, And his robes in the blood of grapes. 12 “His eyes are dull from wine, And his teeth white from milk.

Offering Exodus 29:40 NASB and there shall be one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one- fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with one lamb.

Warning against Leviticus 10:9 NASB “Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die–it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations–

Offering Leviticus 23:13 NASB ’Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the LORD for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine.

Warning against Numbers 6:3 NASB he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

Offering Numbers 6:20 NASB ‘Then the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. It is holy for the priest, together with the breast offered by waving and the thigh offered by lifting up; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.’

Offering Numbers 15:5 NASB and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

Offering Numbers 15:7-10 NASB and for the drink offering you shall offer one-third of a hin of wine as a soothing aroma to the LORD… 10 and you shall offer as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

Offering Numbers 18:12-30 NASB “All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the LORD, I give them to you… 27’Your offering shall be reckoned to you as the grain from the threshing floor or the full produce from the wine vat…. 30 “You shall say to them, ’When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be reckoned to the
Levites as the product of the threshing floor, and as the product of the wine vat.

Offering Numbers 28:14 NASB ’Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for the ram and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

Positive Deuteronomy 7:13 NASB “He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

Positive Deuteronomy 11:14 NASB that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

Neutral Deuteronomy 12:17 NASB “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.

Offering Deuteronomy 14:23-26 NASB “You shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God, at the place where He chooses to establish His name, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always…. 26
“You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink,

or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Offering Deuteronomy 15:14 NASB “You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you.

Offering Deuteronomy 16:13 NASB “You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat;

Offering Deuteronomy 18:4 NASB “You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.

Negative Deuteronomy 28:39 NASB “You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

Neutral Deuteronomy 28:51 NASB “Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

Warning against Deuteronomy 29:6 NASB “You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Neutral Deuteronomy 32:14 NASB Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat– And of the blood of grapes you drank wine.

Negative Deuteronomy 32:33-38 NASB “Their wine is the venom of serpents, And the deadly poison of cobras…:38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your hiding place!

Positive Deuteronomy 33:28 NASB “So Israel dwells in security, The fountain of Jacob secluded, In a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also drop down dew.

Neutral Judges 6:11 NASB Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

Positive Judges 9:13 NASB “But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees?’

Warning against Judges 13:4-14 NASB “Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing…. 7 “But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to
God from the womb to the day of his death.’”…14 “She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded.”

Neutral Judges 19:19 NASB “Yet there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, your maidservant, and the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of anything.”

Negative 1 Samuel 1:14-15 NASB Then Eli said to her, “How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you.” 15 But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Offering 1 Samuel 1:24 NASB Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three- year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD in
Shiloh, although the child was young.

Neutral 1 Samuel 10:3 NASB “Then you will go on further from there, and you will come as far as the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a jug of wine;

Neutral 1 Samuel 16:20 NASB Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son.

Negative 1 Samuel 25:18 NASB Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys….37 NASB But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone.

Negative 2 Samuel 13:28 NASB Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Neutral 2 Samuel 16:1-2 NASB Now when David had passed a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine. 2 The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”

Neutral 2 Kings 6:27 NASB He said, “If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you?
From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

Neutral 2 Kings 18:32 NASB until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live and not die.” But do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you, saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”

Offering 1 Chronicles 9:29 NASB Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.

Neutral 1 Chronicles 12:40 NASB Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and
Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

Neutral 1 Chronicles 27:27 NASB Shimei the Ramathite had charge of the vineyards; and Zabdi the
Shiphmite had charge of the produce of the vineyards stored in the wine cellars.

Neutral 2 Chronicles 2:10 NASB “Now behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil.”

Neutral 2 Chronicles 2:15 NASB “Now then, let my lord send to his servants wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which he has spoken.

Neutral 2 Chronicles 11:11 NASB He also strengthened the fortresses and put officers in them and stores of food, oil and wine.

Neutral 2 Chronicles 31:5 NASB As soon as the order spread, the sons of Israel provided in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all.

Neutral 2 Chronicles 32:28 NASB storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine and oil, pens for all kinds of cattle and sheepfolds for the flocks.

Offering Ezra 6:9 NASB “Whatever is needed, both young bulls, rams, and lambs for a burnt offering to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem request, it is to be given to them daily without fail,

Neutral Ezra 7:22 NASB even up to 100 talents of silver, 100 kors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt as needed.

Neutral Nehemiah 2:1 NASB And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King
Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

Neutral Nehemiah 5:11-18 NASB “Please, give back to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money and of the grain, the new wine and the oil that you are exacting from them.”… 15 But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God….18 Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the governor’s food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

Offering Nehemiah 10:37-39 NASB We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the rural towns….:39
For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine and the oil to the chambers; there are the utensils of the sanctuary, the priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers and the singers. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.

Offering Nehemiah 13:5 NASB had prepared a large room for him, where formerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

Offering Nehemiah 13:12-15 NASB All Judah then brought the tithe of the grain, wine and oil into the storehouses…. 15In those days I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and all kinds of

loads, and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. So I admonished them on the day they sold food.

Neutral Esther 1:7-10 NASB Drinks were served in golden vessels of various kinds, and the royal wine was plentiful according to the king’s bounty…:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

Neutral Esther 5:6 NASB As they drank their wine at the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition, for it shall be granted to you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.”

Neutral Esther 7:1-8 NASB Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen…:2 And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.”… 7 The king arose in his anger from drinking wine and went into the palace garden; but
Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king. 8 NASB Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Neutral Job 1:13 NASB Now on the day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Neutral Job 1:18 NASB While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

Neutral Job 24:11 NASB “Within the walls they produce oil; They tread wine presses but thirst.

Neutral Job 32:19 NASB “Behold, my belly is like unvented wine, Like new wineskins it is about to burst.

Positive Psalms 4:7 NASB You have put gladness in my heart, More than when their grain and new wine abound.

Negative Psalms 60:3 NASB You have made Your people experience hardship; You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

Negative Psalms 75:8 NASB For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine foams; It is well mixed, and He pours out of this; Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

Negative Psalms 78:65 NASB Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, Like a warrior overcome by wine.

Positive Psalms 104:15 NASB And wine which makes man’s heart glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And food which sustains man’s heart.

Positive Proverbs 3:10 NASB So your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine.

Neutral Proverbs 9:2 NASB She has prepared her food, she has mixed her wine; She has also set her table;

Positive Proverbs 9:5 NASB “Come, eat of my food And drink of the wine I have mixed.

Warning against Proverbs 20:1 NASB Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Warning against Proverbs 21:17 NASB He who loves pleasure will become a poor man; He who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

Warning against Proverbs 23:20 NASB Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Warning against Proverbs 23:30-31 NASB Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;

Neutral Proverbs 31:4 NASB It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire strong drink,

Positive Proverbs 31:6 NASB Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to him whose life is bitter.

Negative Ecclesiastes 2:3 NASB I explored with my mind how to stimulate my body with wine while my mind was guiding me wisely, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the sons of men to do under heaven the few years of their lives.

Positive Ecclesiastes 9:7 NASB Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

Positive Ecclesiastes 10:19 NASB Men prepare a meal for enjoyment, and wine makes life merry, and money is the answer to everything.

Positive Song of Solomon 1:2 NASB “May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.

Neutral Song of Solomon 1:4 NASB “Draw me after you and let us run together! The king has brought me into his chambers.” “We will rejoice in you and be glad; We will extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.”

Neural Song of Solomon 4:10 NASB “How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!

Neutral Song of Solomon 5:1 NASB “I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

Neutral Song of Solomon 7:2 NASB “Your navel is like a round goblet Which never lacks mixed wine;
Your belly is like a heap of wheat Fenced about with lilies.

Neutral Song of Solomon 7:9 NASB And your mouth like the best wine!” “It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

Neutral Song of Solomon 8:2 NASB “I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me; I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

Neutral Isaiah 5:2 NASB He dug it all around, removed its stones, And planted it with the choicest vine.
And He built a tower in the middle of it And also hewed out a wine vat in it; Then He expected it to produce good grapes, But it produced only worthless ones.

Offering Isaiah 5:10 NASB “For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”

Warning against Isaiah 5:11 NASB Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Negative Isaiah 5:12 NASB Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine; But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the LORD, Nor do they consider the work of
His hands.

Warning against Isaiah 5:22 NASB Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Neutral Isaiah 16:10 NASB Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field; In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting, No treader treads out wine in the presses, For I have made the shouting to cease.

Negative Isaiah 22:13 NASB Instead, there is gaiety and gladness, Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.”

Negative Isaiah 24:7 NASB The new wine mourns, The vine decays, All the merry-hearted sigh.

Negative Isaiah 24:9 NASB They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Negative Isaiah 24:11 NASB There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine; All joy turns to gloom. The gaiety of the earth is banished.

Positive Isaiah 25:6 NASB The LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.

Positive Isaiah 27:2 NASB In that day, “A vineyard of wine, sing of it!

Negative Isaiah 28:1 NASB Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

Negative Isaiah 28:7 NASB And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink: The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; They reel while having visions, They totter when rendering judgment.

Negative Isaiah 29:9 NASB Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.

Neutral Isaiah 36:17 NASB until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Negative Isaiah 49:26 NASB “I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And they will become drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine; And all flesh will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Positive Isaiah 55:1 NASB “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost.

Negative Isaiah 56:12 NASB “Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink;
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

Neutral Isaiah 62:8 NASB The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm, “I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies; Nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

Neutral Isaiah 63:2 NASB Why is Your apparel red, And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

Neutral Isaiah 63:3 NASB “I have trodden the wine trough alone, And from the peoples there was no man with Me. I also trod them in My anger And trampled them in My wrath; And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments, And I stained all My raiment.

Neutral Isaiah 65:8 NASB Thus says the LORD, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,’ So I will act on behalf of My servants In order not to destroy all of them.

Negative Isaiah 65:11 NASB “But you who forsake the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for Fortune, And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

Neutral Jeremiah 13:12 NASB “Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the
God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’

Negative Jeremiah 23:9 NASB As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man, Even like a man overcome with wine, Because of the LORD And because of His holy words.

Negative Jeremiah 25:15 NASB For thus the LORD, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Positive Jeremiah 31:12 NASB “They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, And they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD– Over the grain and the new wine and the oil, And over the young of the flock and the herd; And their life will be like a watered garden, And they will never languish again.

Neutral Jeremiah 35:2 NASB “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak to them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.”

Positive Jeremiah 35:5 NASB Then I set before the men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”

Negative Jeremiah 35:6 NASB But they said, “We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ’You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever….8 NASB “We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons or our daughters,

Negative Jeremiah 35:14 NASB “The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, which he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are observed. So they do not drink wine to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again; yet you have not listened to Me.

Neutral Jeremiah 40:10 NASB “Now as for me, behold, I am going to stay at Mizpah to stand for you before the Chaldeans who come to us; but as for you, gather in wine and summer fruit and oil and put them in your storage vessels, and live in your cities that you have taken over.”

Neutral Jeremiah 40:12 NASB Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

Neutral Jeremiah 48:11 NASB “Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile.
Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.

Neutral Jeremiah 48:33 NASB “So gladness and joy are taken away From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab. And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses; No one will tread them with shouting, The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

Negative Jeremiah 51:7 NASB Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the LORD, Intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine; Therefore the nations are going mad.

Neutral Lamentations 1:15 NASB “The Lord has rejected all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To crush my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.

Neutral Lamentations 2:12 NASB They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city, As their life is poured out On their mothers’ bosom.

Neutral Ezekiel 27:18 NASB “Damascus was your customer because of the abundance of your goods, because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth, because of the wine of Helbon and white wool.

Negative Ezekiel 44:21 NASB “Nor shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter the inner court.

Neutral Daniel 1:-16 NASB The king appointed for them a daily ration from the king’s choice food and from the wine which he drank, and appointed that they should be educated three years, at the end of which they were to enter the king’s personal service… 8 NASB But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself…16 NASB So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.

Neutral Daniel 5:-41 NASB Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. 2 NASB When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. 4 NASB They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.

Negative Daniel 5:23 NASB but you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.

Negative Daniel 10:3 NASB I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

Neutral Hosea 2:8 NASB “For she does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine and the oil, And lavished on her silver and gold, Which they used for Baal.

Neutral Hosea 2:9 NASB “Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.

Neutral Hosea 2:22 NASB And the earth will respond to the grain, to the new wine and to the oil, And they will respond to Jezreel.

Negative Hosea 4:11 NASB Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Negative Hosea 7:5 NASB On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers,

Negative Hosea 7:14 NASB And they do not cry to Me from their heart When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn away from Me.

Negative Hosea 9:2 NASB Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.

Negative Hosea 9:4 NASB They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners’ bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD.

Positive Hosea 14:7 NASB Those who live in his shadow Will again raise grain, And they will blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Negative Joel 1:5 NASB Awake, drunkards, and weep; And wail, all you wine drinkers, On account of the sweet wine That is cut off from your mouth.

Negative Joel 1:10 NASB The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oil fails.

Positive Joel 2:19 NASB The LORD will answer and say to His people, “Behold, I am going to send you grain, new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied in full with them; And I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

Positive Joel 2:24 NASB The threshing floors will be full of grain, And the vats will overflow with the new wine and oil.

Negative Joel 3:3 NASB “They have also cast lots for My people, Traded a boy for a harlot And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

Negative Joel 3:13 NASB Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full;
The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

Positive Joel 3:18 NASB And in that day The mountains will drip with sweet wine, And the hills will flow with milk, And all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; And a spring will go out from the house of the
LORD To water the valley of Shittim.

Positive Amos 2:8 NASB “On garments taken as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Negative Amos 2:12 NASB “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, And you commanded the prophets saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’

Neutral Amos 5:11 NASB Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor And exact a tribute of grain from them, Though you have built houses of well-hewn stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.

Negative Amos 6:6 NASB Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

Positive Amos 9:13 NASB “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains will drip sweet wine And all the hills will be dissolved.

Positive Amos 9:14 NASB “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit.

Negative Micah 2:11 NASB “If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, ‘I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’ He would be spokesman to this people.

Negative Micah 6:15 NASB “You will sow but you will not reap. You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil; And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

Negative Habakkuk 2:5 NASB “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.

Negative Zephaniah 1:13 NASB “Moreover, their wealth will become plunder And their houses desolate;
Yes, they will build houses but not inhabit them, And plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”

Negative Haggai 1:11 NASB “I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Neutral Haggai 2:12 NASB ‘If a man carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and touches bread with this fold, or cooked food, wine, oil, or any other food, will it become holy?’” And the priests answered, “No.”

Neutral Haggai 2:16 NASB from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Negative Zechariah 9:15 NASB The LORD of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and trample on the sling stones; And they will drink and be boisterous as with wine; And they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the corners of the altar.

Positive Zechariah 9:17 NASB For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

Positive Zechariah 10:7 NASB “Ephraim will be like a mighty man, And their heart will be glad as if from wine; Indeed, their children will see it and be glad, Their heart will rejoice in the LORD.

Neutral Zechariah 14:10 NASB All the land will be changed into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem; but Jerusalem will rise and remain on its site from Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the
First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Neutral Matthew 9:17 NASB “Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Neutral Matthew 21:33 NASB “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A
VINEYARD AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Negative Matthew 27:34 NASB they gave Him wine to drink mixed with gall; and after tasting it, He was unwilling to drink.

Positive Matthew 27:48 NASB Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.

Neutral Mark 2:22 NASB “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”

Neutral Mark 12:1 NASB And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man PLANTED A VINEYARD
AND PUT A WALL AROUND IT, AND DUG A VAT UNDER THE WINE PRESS AND BUILT A TOWER, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey.

Negative Mark 15:23 NASB They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh; but He did not take it.

Neutral Mark 15:36 NASB Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave
Him a drink, saying, “Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down.”

Negative Luke 1:15 NASB “For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.

Neutral Luke 5:37 NASB “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined.39 NASB “But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.39 “And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”

Negative Luke 7:33 NASB “For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’

Neutral Luke 10:34 NASB and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them;
and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Negative Luke 23:36 NASB The soldiers also mocked Him, coming up to Him, offering Him sour wine,

Positive John 2:3 NASB When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus *said to Him, “They have no wine.”

Positive John 2:9 NASB When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter *called the bridegroom,

Positive John 2:10 NASB and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

Positive John 4:46 NASB Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Neutral John 19:29 NASB A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth.

Neutral John 19:30 NASB Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!”
And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Negative Acts 2:13 NASB But others were mocking and saying, “They are full of sweet wine.”

Negative Romans 14:21 NASB It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Warning against Ephesians 5:18 NASB And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Negative 1 Timothy 3:3 NASB not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money.

Negative 1 Timothy 3:8 NASB Deacons likewise must be men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,

Positive 1 Timothy 5:23 NASB No longer drink water exclusively, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Negative Titus 1:7 NASB For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

Negative Titus 2:3 NASB Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,

Neutral Revelation 6:6 NASB And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

Negative Revelation 14:8 NASB And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is
Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Negative Revelation 14:10 NASB he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Negative Revelation 14:19 NASB So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

Negative Revelation 14:20 NASB And the wine press was trodden outside the city, and blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, for a distance of two hundred miles.

Negative Revelation 16:19 NASB The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath.

Negative Revelation 17:2 NASB with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

Negative Revelation 18:3 NASB “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”

Neutral Revelation 18:13 NASB and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

Strong Drink

Negative Numbers 6:3 NASB he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes.

Offering Numbers 28:7 NASB ’Then the drink offering with it shall be a fourth of a hin for each lamb, in the holy place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.

Positive Deuteronomy 14:26 NASB “You may spend the money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen, or sheep, or wine, or strong drink, or whatever your heart desires; and there you shall eat in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.

Negative Deuteronomy 29:6 NASB “You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Warning Judges 13:4 NASB “Now therefore, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing.

Negative Judges 13:7 NASB “But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to
God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

Negative Judges 13:14 NASB “She should not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her observe all that I commanded.”

Negative 1 Samuel 1:15 NASB But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Negative Proverbs 20:1 NASB Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Neutral Proverbs 31:4 NASB It is not for kings, O Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire strong drink,

Positive Proverbs 31:6 NASB Give strong drink to him who is perishing, And wine to him whose life is bitter.

Warning against Isaiah 5:11 NASB Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, Who stay up late in the evening that wine may inflame them!

Warning against Isaiah 5:22 NASB Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink,

Warning against Isaiah 24:9 NASB They do not drink wine with song; Strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.

Negative Isaiah 29:9 NASB Be delayed and wait, Blind yourselves and be blind; They become drunk, but not with wine, They stagger, but not with strong drink.

Negative Isaiah 56:12 NASB “Come,” they say, “let us get wine, and let us drink heavily of strong drink;
And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.”

Drunkenness/drunk

Negative Ecclesiastes 10:17 NASB Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time–for strength and not for drunkenness.

Negative Jeremiah 13:13 NASB then say to them, ’Thus says the LORD, “Behold I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land–the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem–with drunkenness!

Negative Ezekiel 23:33 NASB ’You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, The cup of horror and desolation, The cup of your sister Samaria.

Warning against Luke 21:34 NASB “Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

Warning against Romans 13:13 NASB Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

Warning against Galatians 5:21 NASB envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which
I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Warning against 1 Peter 4:3 NASB For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

Negative Genesis 9:21 NASB He drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Negative Deuteronomy 29:6 NASB “You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink, in order that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

Negative Ruth 3:7 NASB When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.

Negative 1 Samuel 1:13 NASB As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart, only her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard. So Eli thought she was drunk.

Negative 1 Samuel 1:14 NASB Then Eli said to her, “How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you.”

Negative 1 Samuel 1:15 NASB But Hannah replied, “No, my lord, I am a woman oppressed in spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Negative 1 Samuel 25:36 NASB Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

Negative 2 Samuel 11:13 NASB Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.

Negative 1 Kings 16:9 NASB His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
Now he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household at Tirzah.

Negative 1 Kings 20:16 NASB They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him.

Negative 2 Kings 6:23 NASB So he prepared a great feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.

Positive Song of Solomon 5:1 NASB “I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

Negative Jeremiah 25:27 NASB “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Negative Jeremiah 48:26 NASB “Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the LORD; so
Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

Negative Jeremiah 51:39 NASB “When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up,” declares the LORD.

Negative Jeremiah 51:57 NASB “I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,” Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Negative Lamentations 4:21 NASB Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, Who dwells in the land of
Uz; But the cup will come around to you as well, You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

Negative Nahum 3:11 NASB You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

Negative Habakkuk 2:15 NASB “Woe to you who make your neighbors drink, Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk So as to look on their nakedness!

Negative Haggai 1:6 NASB “You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”

Negative Luke 12:45 NASB “But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and begins to beat the slaves, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk;

Positive John 2:10 NASB and *said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”

Negative Acts 2:15 NASB “For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;

Negative 1 Corinthians 11:21 NASB for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

Negative Ephesians 5:18 NASB And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Negative 1 Thessalonians 5:7 NASB For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

II. Other Issues Concerning Wine, Fermented or Non-fermented Grapes, and Strong Drink

Scriptures sometimes refer to wine in the unfermented grape juice phase.
Deu 32:14 Curds of cows, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat– And of the blood of grapes you drank wine. Num 6:1-3 Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to dedicate himself to the LORD, 3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar, whether made from wine or strong drink, nor shall he drink any grape juice nor eat fresh or dried grapes. Isaiah 65:8 says “Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.” (Alcoholic wine in the cluster? No, the juice of the grape while in the cluster could not be intoxicating.) Joel 1:10 “The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.” (This refers to grapes dried up in the fields, which could not be intoxicating.) Jeremiah 48:33 says “And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.” (The wine of fresh squeezed grapes coming out of the winepress is grape juice and could not be fermented.) Certainly other passages could be considered, but these are sufficient to illustrate that the word “wine” can refer to alcoholic wine or simply grape juice.

Wine is seen as the products of grapes “new wine” is more of a non fermented.
Deu 12:17 “You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand.
Deu 18:4 “You shall give him the first fruits of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the first shearing of your sheep.

“New wine” can be construed to occasionally referred to as fermented wine but these occurrences can be questioned.
Jdg 9:13 “But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees?’ Hos 4:11 Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

Historical precedent of “new wine” meaning unfermented from other ancient works. The following material is just a portion of a list which comes from F. R. Lees’ work, The Bible Wine Question.
Aristotle …new wine “it is WINE in name, but not in effect…” (4th century B.C.)
Callixenus …they “were trampling on the grapes, and the NEW-WINE (gleukos) ran out over the whole road…” (300 B.C.)
The Gemara speaks of “WINE preserved in its grapes.”
Suidas… “GLEUKUS …the droppings of the grapes before being trodden…” (950 A.D.)
Sir Thomas Herbert speaks of WINE gotten from wounding the Toddy Tree and catching the juice (1638
A.D.)

John Parkinson under the heading “Vines” says: “The juice or liquor pressed out of the ripe grape is called
VINUM, WINE…” (1640 A.D.)
Henry Southwell speaking of martyrs said that they were “like grapes when pressed, they yield luxuriant
WINE” (1660 A.D.)
Thomas Blount speaks of must as NEW-WINE, or, “that which is first pressed out of the grape.” (1670
A.D.)
Edward Phillips says of must, “WINE newly pressed from the grapes (1670 A.D.)
J.W. Gent speaks of “WINE-cinder” and “cherry-WINE.” The juice of the cherry is “gently pressed” and makes “a very pleasant WINE” (1676 A.D.)
W. Robertson, “WINE; Vinum … New-WINE; Mustum - New WINE that runs out with-out pressing.”
(1693 A.D.)
Thomas Sprat speaks of vessels into which is put “cute or unfermented WINE.” (1702 A.D.)
J.M. Gesner says: “Once for all it must be observed, that the words VINUM (wine), VITIS (vine), UVAE
(grape-clusters), and VINEA (vineyard), as kindred terms are sometimes used synonymously…” and “The juice of apples, pears, pomegranates, and sorbs, was called VINUM.” (1730 A.D.)
Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary: “The first time they lower the great beams upon the grapes, they (the
French) call the WINE that runs out the WINE of Guotte, because it is the finest and most exquisite in the grape … The WINE strains from the press into a puncheon … Vin Bourra, as they call it, i.e., a new and sweet white WINE that has not worked…” (1748 A.D.)
E. Chambers speaks of, “Sweet WINE” which has not yet fermented; WINE which is called “Mere- goutte,” mother-drop, which is the virgin-WINE; Burnt WINE is “boiled up with sugar.” (1750 A.D.)
Samuel Johnson speaks of Must as “New WINE” (1773 A.D.)
John Parkhurst tells of Ovid applying the Latin “mecum” to mean “pure WINE as it is pressed out of the grapes.”
J.F. Schleusner: “OINOS; generally VINUM liquor expressed from grapes whether new or old …OINOS neos, VINUM novum i.e., must, alias gleukos…GLEUKOS, prop erly the liquor which drops from the grape before treading.” (1810 A.D.)
Gesenius (in the last edition of his lexicon, 1844): “TIROSH, must, of the juice of the grape.” (1844 A.D.)
James Donegan: “GLEUKOS; new, unfermented WINE, must …SIRAION…a WINE prepared by boiling grapes…” (1826A.D.)
Noah Webster: “Must, New WINE; wine pressed from the grape but not fermented.” (1828 A.D.)
S. Lee: “Ahsis; Literally, trodden. New WINE; the juice of the grape…” (1830 A.D.)
John Avenarius has: “Ahsis - mustum, which is recently expressed juice. German susz: susur WEIN…”
(1588 A.D.)
Dr. Ure: “Juice, when newly expressed, and before it has begun to ferment, is called must, and in common language sweet WINE.” (1836 A.D.)
H. Bullinger speaks of WINE running out of the wine-press (1573 A.D.)
Bretschneider: “Oinos neos, mustum. Sept. for ahsis and tirosh. 2…Gleukos, mustum. That which drops from the grapes before being trodden. Acts 2:13. Job 32:19 where the Hebrew is yayin.” (1840A.D.)
Baron Liebig: “If a flask be filled with grape juice and made air-tight, and then kept for a few hours in boiling water. .. THE WINE does not now ferment.” (1844 A.D.)
Encyclopedia Americana (1855): “The juice of the grape, when newly expressed, and before it has begun to ferment, is called must, and, in common language, SWEET WINE.”