Thematic Bible: Feasts, general references to
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Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.
So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.
So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.
A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;
So he prepared a great feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.
They were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen had prepared for them.
When these days were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.
And He *said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it to him.
Related Topics
- A Thousand People
- Alcohol
- Amusements
- Banquets, Characeristics
- Banquets, Events Celebrated
- Banquets, Examples Of
- Banquets, Reasons
- Barley
- Baskets, Uses Of
- Birthdays
- Birthdays Celebrated
- Celebration
- Celebrations
- Commander
- Crowds
- Dinner