57 Bible Verses about Feasting

He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

They answered: Now we know that Jehovah is with you. We think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise that you will not harm us. We did not harm you. We were kind to you and let you go peacefully. Now it is clear that Jehovah has blessed you. Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.read more.
Early the next morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said good-bye to them. They parted as friends.

Even though these leaders of Israel saw God, he did not punish them. So they ate and drank.

In the same manner, after supper, he took the cup, saying, This cup represents (is) the new covenant of my blood. Drink this as often as you do it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.

Samson's father went to the woman's house. Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.

Laban gathered all the men of the place and gave a feast.

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee on the third day. The mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast. They ran out of wine. So the mother of Jesus said to him: They have no wine.read more.
Jesus said to her: Woman what have I to do with you? My hour has not arrived. His mother told the servants to do whatever he says. Six stone water jars were placed there to honor purification rules of the Jews. Each contained more than twenty gallons. Jesus said to them: Fill the jars with water. They filled them to the brim. Draw some out, he said, and take it to the master of the feast. So they drew some out. The master of the feast did not know about the water turned into wine. He tasted it and called the bridegroom. He said to him: Every man sets out the good wine first. When the men have drunk freely the lower quality wine is served. You have kept the good wine until now.

He said to me: Write: Blessed are they who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. He said to me: These are the true sayings of God.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham held a big feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Get the prize calf and kill it. Let us celebrate with a feast! My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

This very day he has gone and offered a sacrifice of many bulls, sheep, and fattened calves. He invited all your sons, Joab the commander of your army, and Abiathar the priest, and right now they are feasting with him and shouting: 'Long live King Adonijah!'

In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.

Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to Jehovah your God. It was in the month of Abib that Jehovah your God brought you out of Egypt by night. Sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where Jehovah chooses to establish his name. Do not eat leavened bread with it. Eat unleavened bread for seven days. It is the bread of affliction. You should remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt in haste.

The following are Jehovah's appointed festivals with holy assemblies. You must announce these at their appointed times. The Passover, celebrated to honor Jehovah, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. 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.

All the people of Israel who were present celebrated the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

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

Every year his parents went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

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.

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.

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.

Inform the Israelites: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths to Jehovah. It will last seven days.

Gather the grain from your threshing floor and make your wine. Then celebrate the Festival of Booths for seven days.

They celebrated the Festival of Booths according to what is written. Each day they offered the sacrifices required for that day.

They saw that it was recorded in the law that Jehovah gave orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

Every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

It was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem.

He said to them: Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready. This day is holy to our Lord. Let there be no grief in your hearts. The joy of Jehovah is your strong place.

They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.

Solomon woke up and was aware that God had spoken to him in the dream. Then he went to Jerusalem and stood in front of Jehovah's Ark of the Covenant. He offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to Jehovah. Then he gave a feast for all his officials.

Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast. They invited many others to come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them.

He led David to the Amalekites. They were eating, drinking and celebrating because of what they had taken from Philistia and Judah.

King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine with them.

It was Herod's birthday. He invited his lords, the military commanders, and the prominent men of Galilee to supper. When the daughter of Herodias danced for Herod and his guests, she pleased him so much he promised her anything she desired. He pledged to her, Whatever you ask of me, I will give it to you, up to half of my kingdom.read more.
She asked her mother, What should I ask? And the mother said: The head of John the Baptist. At once she went to the king and asked: Will you give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter. The king was very sorry. Even so he kept his promise to her. He did not turn her down. This also showed his dinner guests he was a man of his word. He immediately commanded his guard to behead John the Baptist and bring his head to him. He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the young lady. In turn she gave it to her mother.

If a nonbeliever invites you to a feast and you feel you must go eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man says to you: This is offered in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods). They think it strange that you do not run with them in wild and reckless living and they speak evil about you.

Do not be idolaters like some of them. It is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.

Early the next day the people sacrificed burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. After that they sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy.

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king's banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn.

Absalom gave an order to his servants: Watch now and when Amnon begins to feel good from drinking too much wine, I will tell you, Attack Amnon. Then kill him. Do not be afraid. I give this order. Be strong and courageous.

Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness.

But if any man says to you: This is offered in sacrifice to idols, do not eat for the sake of the one who said it and for conscience sake.

Levi made him a great feast in his house. There was a large group of tax collectors and of others that were sitting at the meal with them.

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with the tax collectors and sinners they asked his disciples: Why does he take food and drink with such men? Jesus heard this. He said to them: Those who are well have no need of a medical man but those who are ill do. I have come to care for sinners not the upright.

Pharisees and teachers of the Law complained: This man welcomes sinners and even eats with them!

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'A gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Wisdom is justified by its actions.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and you say look he is a gluttonous man, and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! All her children vindicate wisdom.

The disciples of John asked: Why do your disciples not fast? They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees. Jesus replied: Should the wedding guests mourn and also celebrate with the groom? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.

John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. They came to him and asked: Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast but your disciples do not? Jesus replied: Will the friends of a newly married man practice fasting while he is with them? As long as they have him with them they will not go without food. But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.

They said: The disciples of John fast often and make supplications. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink. Jesus replied: Could you make the sons of the bride-chamber fast while the bridegroom is with them? The days will come and when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast.

Wisdom built her house. She carved her seven pillars. She prepared her food and mixed her wine. She furnished her table. She sent her maidens. She cried on the highest places of the city,read more.
Who is simple? Let him turn in here! He who lacks understanding, she says to him, Come eat my bread, and drink the wine that I have mixed. Forsake the foolish, and live. Travel in the way of understanding.

On this mountain Jehovah of Hosts will make a feast of rich food for all peoples, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear of dregs.

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

One of the guests at the table then said to Jesus: Those who sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God will be happy!

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and dine with him, and he with me.

I tell you, many will come from the east and the west, to sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: