the king

Psalm 50:16-21
To the wicked, however, God says, "What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? . . .

Proverbs 4:17
since they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry morsel in quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 21:3, 27
To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice. . . .

Isaiah 1:11-15
"What is your multitude of sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs and goats. . . .

Zechariah 7:6
And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

John 18:28
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.