Thematic Bible: Feast


Thematic Bible



By faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. Verse ConceptsFirstbornMoses, Significance OfSprinklingTouchSprinkling BloodDeath Of The FirstbornThe DestroyerExploits Of Faith

The fifteenth day of the same month the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. You must not eat any bread made with yeast for seven days. Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadNew Year, TheYeastSeven Days

They celebrated it on the fourteenth day of the first month at dusk while they were in the Desert of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as Jehovah commanded Moses. Verse ConceptsTwilight

The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. Verse ConceptsPassoverThe Number Fourteen

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah. Verse ConceptsJudgesUnique FeastsTimes Of People

Josiah celebrated the Passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem. The Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. Verse ConceptsYearsThe Number Fourteen

The first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus. They asked: Where do you wish to eat the Passover? Verse ConceptsPassover lambFeastingTypesWhere Are Things?

Every year his parents went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. Verse ConceptsFeastingVisitingWorship, Times ForEvery Yearparenthood

He said to them: I have earnestly wanted to eat this Passover with you before I die. Verse ConceptsPassoverSuffering, Of Jesus ChristRight Desirescommunion


Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksFeast Of TabernaclesCelebrationsHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityNew Year, ThePentecostSowing And ReapingWorship, Times ForYearsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]AgricultureFirst fruitsCelebrationcelebrating

Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the first grain from your wheat harvest. Celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the season. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHarvestPentecostWeeksWheatWorship, Times ForYearsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]Time Of Year

until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah. Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthRegulations For Cereal Offerings

During the Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly. On that day you must not do any regular work. Bring Jehovah your new grain offering, the first produce harvested from your fields. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodConvocationsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Cereal OfferingsFirst fruits

Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Jehovah your God. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Jehovah your God has given you. Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveFeast Of WeeksGenerosity, Used TowardsAnimal Sacrifice, Free Will OfferingTithesFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]Free Willinterracial

Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound. Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheAutumnTrumpetMonth 7Music To CelebrateSabbaths Instituted


Ezra the priest brought the law to the meeting of the people. They were all able to listen to it. It was the first day of the seventh month. Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtHoliness, As Set Apart For GodLiteracyMonth 7

This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy. Verse ConceptsMonth 12

As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor. Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesPeople Providing FoodRejoicing In God's Works

So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them, Verse ConceptsPurimthe anniversary FeastsCelebrationcelebrating


Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far. He ordered them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year. As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor. read more.
The Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing. Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, conspired for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur that is, chance with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off. But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design that he had made against the Jews was to be turned against him. That he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging. So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them, The Jews made a rule and established a custom that all their descendents should observe two days every year as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year. Those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their descendents. Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim. He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace, Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen. This was in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their descendents, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help. The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim. It was recorded in the book.