Celebrations

Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said, — read the full passage →

Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, — read the full passage →

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the Lord remaineth under curtains. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. — read the full passage →