'Feast' in the Bible
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.
While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.
The king and Haman came to feast with Esther the queen.
Then in his fury, the king stood up from drinking wine and went into the palace garden [to decide what he should do]; but Haman stayed to plead for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king.
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.
His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."
(Feast upon him do companions, They divide him among the merchants!)
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.
Like godless jesters at a feast,They gnashed at me with their teeth.
They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.
These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!
They spoke against God by asking, "Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert?
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Do not let my heart turn to any evil thingor perform wicked actswith men who commit sin.Do not let me feast on their delicacies.
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
“So I came out to meet you [that you might share with me the feast of my offering],Diligently I sought your face and I have found you.
Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning.Let’s feast on each other’s love!
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
It is better to go to a funeral than a feast. For death is the destiny of every person, and the living should take this to heart.
Woe to you, land, when your king is a youthand your princes feast in the morning.
Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of noblesand your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
(The Bridegroom)“I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride;I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words].I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;I have drunk my wine with my milk.Eat, friends;Drink and drink deeply, O lovers.”
The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;The twilight I longed for has been turned into fear and trembling for me.
And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.
then you will take delight in the LORD, and he will make you ride upon the heights of the earth; and he will make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob, your father. "Yes! The mouth of the LORD has spoken."
But as for you who abandon the Lord and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain, who prepare a feast for the god called 'Fortune,' and fill up wine jugs for the god called 'Destiny' --
“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place. Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed My peace from these people”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“as well as My faithful love and compassion.
No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals: Assemble and come! Gather from all around to My sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel; you will eat flesh and drink blood.
You will eat fat until you are satisfied and drink blood until you are drunk, at My sacrificial feast that I have prepared for you.
In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
“And I will punish her for the [feast] days of the Baals,When she used to offer sacrifices and burn incense to themAnd adorn herself with her earrings and nose rings and her jewelry,And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” says the Lord.
What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away.
Many nations have now assembled against you;they say, “Let her be defiled,and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
I tell all of you, many will come from east and west and will feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom from heaven.
The kingdom of the heavens has become like a king who made a wedding feast for his son,
and sent his bondmen to call the persons invited to the wedding feast, and they would not come.
Again he sent other bondmen, saying, Say to the persons invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatted beasts are killed, and all things ready; come to the wedding feast.
Then he says to his bondmen, The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy;
go therefore into the thoroughfares of the highways, and as many as ye shall find invite to the wedding feast.
And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.
But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.
Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,
And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.
Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.
And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and they will sit down [and feast at the table] in the kingdom of God.
And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,
“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him,
And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat.
But when you come, go and take the lowest seat, so that when the giver of the feast comes, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; and then you will have honour in the eyes of all the others who are there.
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!"
And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.
For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.
Then bring the fattened calf and slaughter it, and let’s celebrate with a feast,
for this son of mine was [as good as] dead and is alive again; he was lost and has been found.’ So they began to celebrate.
But he said to his father, ‘Look! These many years I have served you, and I have never neglected or disobeyed your command. Yet you have never given me [so much as] a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;
But it was fitting to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was [as good as] dead and has begun to live. He was lost and has been found.’”
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
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