And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
They went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards ... and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink. This is an instance of what is universally admitted, that wine was used in the sacred feasts of the pagan.
And cursed Abimelech - i:e., expressed their malevolence to him in the songs they sung on that occasion in the temple (Harmer, 4:, p. 149).