Do not drink wine or strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, that you not die. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations,

to make a distinction between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,

And it happened when Ben-Hadad heard this message, as he and the kings were drinking at the booths, that he said to his servants, Get ready. And they stationed themselves against the city.

So they went out at noon. Meanwhile Ben-Hadad and the thirty-two kings helping him were getting drunk in the booths.

And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them alive; and if they have come out for war, take them alive.

And each one struck his man; so the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.

The runners went out, hastened by the king's command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the palace. So the king and Haman sat down to drink. But the city of Shushan was perplexed.

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your rulers eat at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink have gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they have gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

For all tables are full of vomit and excrement; no place is clean.

While tasting the wine, Belshazzar commanded the golden and silver vessels brought, those his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.

They drank wine and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of bronze, of iron, wood, and stone.

Harlotry and wine and new wine snatch away the heart.

My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their magic wand expounds to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have committed adultery against their God.

They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

In the day of our king, the rulers have made themselves sick, inflamed with wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

And also, wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he dwells not at home, who widens his soul like Sheol. And he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all the nations to himself, and collects all the peoples to himself.

Then an opportune day came when Herod on his birthday made a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

He also swore to her, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.

And immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, I want you to give me on a platter at once the head of John the Immerser.

And immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,