13 Bible Verses about Banquets, Characeristics

If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.

And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.

And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body. And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room. And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.read more.
For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.

The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me. He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.

And they were all given their seats before him in order of birth, from the oldest to the youngest: so that they were looking at one another in wonder.

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great: For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

Then Samuel took Saul and his servant into the guest room, and made them take the chief place among all the guests who were there, about thirty persons. And Samuel said to the cook, Give me that part which I gave you orders to keep by you. And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel.

And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;