Bible: Drinking Eating Were

Repeated words found across different books in the Bible (KJV):
1Sm 30:16
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

1Ki 4:20
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.

1Chr 12:39
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

Job 1:13
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

Job 1:18
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

Mat 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,