But they answered, “We do not drink wine because our ancestor Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us not to. He told us, ‘You and your children must never drink wine.

he must separate ¹  himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar ²  made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice ³  of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. ⁴ 

So he ¹  said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”

He fortified these cities and placed officers in them, as well as storehouses of food, olive oil, and wine.

He made storerooms for the harvest of grain, wine, and olive oil, and stalls for all his various kinds of livestock and his flocks. ¹ 

You make me happier ¹  than those who have abundant grain and wine. ² 

The one who loves ¹  pleasure ²  will be ³  a poor person; ⁴  whoever loves wine and anointing oil ⁵  will not be rich.

They no longer sing and drink wine; ¹  the beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.

So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine ¹  from their diet ²  and gave them a diet of vegetables instead.

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

then the ground will respond to the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and they will respond to ‘God Plants’ (Jezreel)! ¹ 

The threshing floors are full of grain; the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; ¹  you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine, ¹ 

Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me, ¹  I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously ²  I had not been depressed ³  in the king’s presence. ⁴ 

The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain. ¹  At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine – tender meat and choicest wine. ² 

Even these men ¹  stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer – priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused ²  because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, ³  they totter while making legal decisions. ⁴ 

Your ¹  silver has become scum, ²  your beer is diluted with water. ³ 

Those who are champions ¹  at drinking wine are as good as dead, ²  who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.

The crops of the fields ¹  have been destroyed. ²  The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.