Thematic Bible: Feasts, general references to


Thematic Bible



Belshazzar the king made a great festival for thousand [of] his lords, and {in the presence of} the thousand [lords] he was drinking wine.

So they gathered [them], and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days [and] seven days, [a total of] fourteen days.

So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.

And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining for the meal with them.

And a suitable day came when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers and military tribunes and the most prominent [men] of Galilee.

So he made a great feast for them, and they ate and drank; then he sent them, and they went to their master. And the bands of the Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.

And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them.

And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king's palace garden that lasted seven days.

And he said to them, "Now draw [some] out and take [it] to the head steward. So they took [it].