And it came to pass, after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal Hazor, which is near Ephraim; and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants; the powers of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the rulers of the provinces being before him;

And when these days were completed, the king made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were found in Shushan the palace, from great to small, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.

And they served drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being different from the other, with royal wine in abundance, according to the hand of the king.

Then He also said to him who invited Him, When you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Watch now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon! then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant.

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

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives off bubbles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly.

Your eyes will see strange things and your heart will speak perversities.

They struck me, but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When I awake, I will ask for more; to do it again.

I said of laughter, It is madness; and of mirth, What does it accomplish?

I sought in my heart to gratify my flesh with wine, while leading my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, until I might find out what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

Food is made for laughter, and wine makes merry; but money is the answer to everything.

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trampled under foot;

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.

And I will make her rulers drunk, along with her wise ones, her governors, and her officials, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a never-ending sleep and not wake up, says the King whose name is Jehovah of Hosts.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

At that moment fingers of a man's hand came out and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace across from the lampstand. And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

For as thorns are woven together, and as their drunkards are drunken, they shall be devoured like fully dried straw.

Woe to him who causes his friend to drink, joining with your bottle, and also making him drunk, so as to look upon his nakedness.

You are filled with shame instead of glory; you drink also, and are counted as uncircumcised. The cup of the right hand of Jehovah shall turn on you, and disgrace shall be your glory.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with giddiness, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come upon you unexpectedly.

Let us walk decently, as in the day, not in carousings and drunkenness, not in cohabitation and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled by the Spirit,

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I am coming after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

A good man deals graciously and lends; he will guide his affairs with justice.

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep, stand forth out from among the dead, and Christ will shine on you.