* messes.
  2Sa 11:8 
 * was five times.
   Sir John Chardin observes, that "in Persia, Arabia, and the
   Indies, there are some houses where they place several plates
   in large salvers, and set one of these before each person, or
   before two or three, according to the magnificence of each
   house.  The great men of the state are always served by
   themselves, in the feasts that are made for them; and with
   great profusion, their part of each kind of provision being
   always double, treble, or a larger proportion of each kind of
   meat."

  45:22  1Sa 1:5  9:22-24 
 * were merry.  Heb. drank largely.
  Pr 31:6  Ec 9:7  10:19  So 5:1  Hab 1:6  Mt 11:19  Joh 2:10