Dan 5:2-4, Hos 4:11-12, 7:3-5, Hab 2:5, Mar 6:21-28 | ESV | STEP | Belshazzar , when he tasted the wine , commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought , that the king and his lords , his wives , and his concubines might drink from them.

2 ^aBelshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that ^bthe vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father ^{▼▼Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18} had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought in ^dthe golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and ^epraised the ^fgods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Hosea 4:11-12

11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,
which ^gtake away the understanding.
12 My people ^hinquire of a piece of wood,
and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ⁱa spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
and they have left their God to play the whore.

Hosea 7:3-5

3 By their evil ^jthey make ^kthe king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 ^lThey are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day of ^mour king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.

Habakkuk 2:5

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^oa traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain}
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death ^qhe has never enough.
^rHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Mark 6:21-28

21 But an opportunity came when Herod ^son his birthday ^tgave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. 22 For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.” 23 And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, ^uup to half of my kingdom.” 24 And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.” 25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her. 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s ^{▼▼Greek his} head. He went and beheaded him in the prison 28 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.