1 Kings 20:16

And they went out at noon. ["At the time when Ben-hadad, haughty and confident, had given himself up with his vassals, to the table, news of which had probably been received in the city" (Bähr). But it seems at least equally probable that the noon hour was selected either in obedience to the unrecorded directions of the prophet, or as being a time for rest and sleep, as it still is in the East.] But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. [Strong drink would seem to have been a besetment of the monarchs of that age (of. 1 Kings 16:9 ; Proverbs 31:4 ; Daniel 5:1 sqq.; Esther 1:10 ; Esther 7:2 ; Habakkuk 2:5 ). It can hardly have been to "mark his utter contempt of the foe," Rawlinson, who compares Belshazzar's feast ( Daniel 5:1-4 ) when besieged by Cyrus. But Ben-hadad was the besieger. We are rather reminded of Alexander's carouse at Babylon.]