They also reel with wine, and stagger with beer. The priest and the prophet reel with beer. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with beer. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
envy, drunkenness, hard partying, and things like these. I am warning y’all as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Empire of God.
When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Y’all watch until Amnon’s heart is merry with wine and I tell y’all, ‘Strike Amnon.’ Then y’all must kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded y’all? Y’all must be courageous and valiant!”
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer whenever y’all go into the Tent of Meeting, or y’all will die. This is a permanent statute throughout y’all’s generations.
Moreover, wine betrays the arrogant man: He is not at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, he is like death and can’t be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations and gathers all peoples to himself.