The Bible warns against gluttony and also counts eating and drinking as a gift from God. The glutton appears in Deuteronomy 21:20, Proverbs 23:20-21 and the charge made against Jesus in Matthew 11:19; Philippians 3:19 describes people whose “god is their belly,” and Ecclesiastes 2:24 says that eating and drinking are “from the hand of God.” The Hebrew word translated glutton in Deuteronomy 21:20 and Proverbs 23:20-21 and 28:7 is zalal (Strong’s 2151), which also means to be worthless or…
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