Topic
Entertain
25 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 21:8Easton
And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- Genesis 26:30Easton
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
- Genesis 29:22Easton
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Genesis 43:34Easton
And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
- Exodus 34:15Easton
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
- Deuteronomy 16:11Easton
And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place…
- Deuteronomy 16:14Easton
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
- Judges 9:27Easton
And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.
- 1 Samuel 1:4Easton
¶ And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
- 1 Samuel 9:13Easton
As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up;…
- 1 Samuel 9:22Easton
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
- 2 Samuel 3:35Easton
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
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- 2 Samuel 6:19 Easton
- 2 Samuel 13:23 Easton
- Proverbs 9:3 Easton
- Jeremiah 16:7 Easton
- Matthew 14:6 Easton
- Matthew 22:3 Easton
- Mark 12:39 Easton
- Luke 14:8 Easton
- John 2:1 Easton
- Romans 13:13 Easton
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 Easton
- Galatians 5:21 Easton
- 1 Peter 4:3 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 25 references
Entertainments, “feasts,” were sometimes connected with a public festival (Deut. 16:11, 14), and accompanied by offerings (1 Sam. 9:13), in token of alliances (Gen. 26:30); sometimes in connection with domestic or social events, as at the weaning of children (Gen. 21:8), at weddings (Gen. 29:22; John 2:1), on birth-days (Matt. 14:6), at the time of sheep-shearing (2 Sam. 13:23), and of vintage (Judg. 9:27), and at funerals (2 Sam. 3:35; Jer. 16:7).
The guests were invited by servants (Prov. 9:3; Matt. 22:3), who assigned them their respective places (1 Sam. 9:22; Luke 14:8; Mark 12:39). Like portions were sent by the master to each guest (1 Sam. 1:4; 2 Sam. 6:19), except when special honour was intended, when the portion was increased (Gen. 43:34).
The Israelites were forbidden to attend heathenish sacrificial entertainments (Ex. 34:15), because these were in honour of false gods, and because at such feast they would be liable to partake of unclean flesh (1 Cor. 10:28).
In the entertainments common in apostolic times among the Gentiles were frequent “revellings,” against which Christians were warned (Rom. 13:13; Gal. 5:21; 1 Pet. 4:3). (See BANQUET.)
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.