³⁶ When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high^(A) spirits and very drunk.^(B) So she told^(C) him nothing at all until daybreak.

²⁸ Absalom^(A) ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high^(B) spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.^(C)”

Absalom Kills Amnon

²³ Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers^(A) were at Baal Hazor near the border of Ephraim, he invited all the king’s sons to come there.

¹⁹ Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead;^(A) I’ll follow you.” But she did not tell^(B) her husband Nabal.

⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.^{(A) 8} But since we belong to the day,^(B) let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate,^(C) and the hope of salvation^(D) as a helmet.^(E)

¹⁸ Do not get drunk on wine,^(A) which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit,^(B)

¹⁴ This is why it is said:

¹³ Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness,^(A) not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.^(B)