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Entertainment Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think on these things.

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Entertainment Psalm 101:2, 3

I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart. / I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

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Entertainment Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”

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Entertainment Colossians 3:17

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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Entertainment Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

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Entertainment Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

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Entertainment 1 Timothy 6:17–19

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy. / Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, and to be generous and ready to share, / treasuring up for themselves a firm foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

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Entertainment Titus 2:12

It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

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Entertainment Luke 12:33, 34

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. / For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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Entertainments: A Choice Portion Reserved In, for Principal Guests Genesis 43:34

When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

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Entertainments: A Choice Portion Reserved In, for Principal Guests 1 Samuel 1:5

But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.

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Entertainments: A Choice Portion Reserved In, for Principal Guests 1 Samuel 9:23, 24

And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.” / So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.

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Entertainments: Anxiety to Have Many Guests At, Alluded To Luke 14:22, 23

‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ / So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

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Entertainments: Began with Thanksgiving 1 Samuel 9:13

As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”

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Entertainments: Began with Thanksgiving Mark 8:6

And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves, gave thanks and broke them, and gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And they distributed them to the crowd.

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Entertainments: Concluded with a Hymn Mark 14:26

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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Entertainments: Custom of Presenting the Sop At, to One of the Guests, John 13:26

Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.” Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.

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Entertainments: Forwardness to Take Chief Seats At, Condemned Matthew 23:6

They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues,

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Entertainments: Forwardness to Take Chief Seats At, Condemned Luke 14:7, 8

When Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, He told them a parable: / “When you are invited to a wedding banquet, do not sit in the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished than you has been invited.

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Entertainments: Given by the Guests in Return Job 1:4

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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Entertainments: Given by the Guests in Return Luke 14:12

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Birthdays Mark 6:21

On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Coronation of Kings 1 Kings 1:9, 18, 19

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king. / But now, behold, Adonijah has become king, and you, my lord the king, did not know it. / And he has sacrificed an abundance of oxen, fattened calves, and sheep, and has invited all the other sons of the king, as well as Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army. But he did not invite your servant Solomon.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Coronation of Kings 1 Chronicles 12:39, 40

They spent three days there eating and drinking with David, for their relatives had provided for them. / And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Coronation of Kings Hosea 7:5

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Festivals 1 Samuel 20:5, 24–26

So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now. / So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat. / Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Harvest Home Ruth 3:2–7

Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor. / Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. / When he lies down, note the place where he lies. Then go in and uncover his feet, and lie down, and he will explain to you what you should do.”

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Harvest Home Isaiah 9:3

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Marriage Matthew 22:2

“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of National Deliverance Esther 8:17

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of National Deliverance Esther 9:17–19

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy. / The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy. / This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Offering Voluntary Sacrifice Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Offering Voluntary Sacrifice Deuteronomy 12:6, 7

To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks. / There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Offering Voluntary Sacrifice 1 Samuel 1:4, 5, 9

And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. / But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb. / So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Ratifying Covenants Genesis 26:30

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Ratifying Covenants Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Return of Friends 2 Samuel 12:4

Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.”

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Return of Friends Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Sheep-Shearing 1 Samuel 25:2, 36

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. / When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Sheep-Shearing 2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Taking Leave of Friends 1 Kings 19:21

So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Vintage Judges 9:27

And after they had gone out into the fields, gathered grapes from their vineyards, and trodden them, they held a festival and went into the house of their god; and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of Weaning Children Genesis 21:8

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Arranged According to Rank Genesis 43:33

They were seated before Joseph in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at one another in astonishment.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Arranged According to Rank 1 Samuel 9:22

Then Samuel took Saul and his servant, brought them into the hall, and seated them in the place of honor among those who were invited—about thirty in all.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Arranged According to Rank Luke 14:10

But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone at the table with you.

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Entertainments: Guests At: had Their Feet Washed when They Came a Distance Genesis 18:4

Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

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Entertainments: Guests At: had Their Feet Washed when They Came a Distance Genesis 43:24

And the steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.

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Entertainments: Guests At: had Their Feet Washed when They Came a Distance Luke 7:38, 44

As she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears and wipe them with her hair. Then she kissed His feet and anointed them with the perfume. / And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Often Ate from the Same Dish Matthew 26:23

Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Often had Separate Dishes Genesis 43:34

When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Often had Separate Dishes 1 Samuel 1:4

And whenever the day came for Elkanah to present his sacrifice, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Saluted by the Master Luke 7:45

You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Usually Anointed Psalm 23:5

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

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Entertainments: Guests At: Usually Anointed Luke 7:46

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she has anointed My feet with perfume.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often Addressed to Many Luke 14:16

But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often by the Master in Person 2 Samuel 13:24

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often by the Master in Person Esther 5:4

“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often by the Master in Person Zephaniah 1:7

Be silent in the presence of the Lord GOD, for the Day of the LORD is near. Indeed, the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has consecrated His guests.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often by the Master in Person Luke 7:36

Then one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often Only to Relatives and Friends 1 Kings 1:9

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Often Only to Relatives and Friends Luke 14:12

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Repeated Through Servants when all Things Were Ready Proverbs 9:1–5

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars. / She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. / She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.

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Entertainments: Invitations to Repeated Through Servants when all Things Were Ready Luke 14:17

When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

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Entertainments: Invitations to should be Sent to the Poor Deuteronomy 14:29

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

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Entertainments: Invitations to should be Sent to the Poor Luke 14:13

But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Banquet of Wine Esther 5:6

And as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Dinner Genesis 43:16

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Dinner Matthew 22:4

Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Dinner Luke 14:12

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Supper Luke 14:12

Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.

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Entertainments: Kinds of, Mentioned in Scripture: Supper John 12:2

So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.

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Entertainments: Men and Women did not Usually Meet At Esther 1:8, 9

By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired. / Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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Entertainments: Men and Women did not Usually Meet At Mark 6:21

On Herod’s birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

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Entertainments: Men and Women did not Usually Meet At Matthew 14:11

John’s head was brought in on a platter and presented to the girl, who carried it to her mother.

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Entertainments: Music and Dancing often Introduced At Amos 6:5

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

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Entertainments: Music and Dancing often Introduced At Mark 6:22

When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

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Entertainments: Music and Dancing often Introduced At Luke 15:25

Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

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Entertainments: None Admitted To, After the Master had Risen and Shut The Luke 13:24, 25

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. / After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

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Entertainments: None Asked to Eat or Drink More than he Liked At Esther 1:8

By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

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Entertainments: Offense Given by Refusing to Go To Luke 14:18, 24

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’ / For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”

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Entertainments: Often Given in The Air, Besides Fountains 1 Kings 1:9

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

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Entertainments: Often Given in The Court of the House Esther 1:5, 6

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest. / Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

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Entertainments: Often Given in The Court of the House Luke 7:36, 37

Then one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him, and He entered the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. / When a sinful woman from that town learned that Jesus was dining there, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume.

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Entertainments: Often Given in The House Luke 5:29

Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

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Entertainments: Often Given in The Upper Room or Guest Chamber Mark 14:14, 15

and whichever house he enters, say to the owner, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is My guest room, where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?’ / And he will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

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Entertainments: Often Great Genesis 21:8

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

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Entertainments: Often Great Daniel 5:1

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

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Entertainments: Often Great Luke 5:29

Then Levi hosted a great banquet for Jesus at his house. A large crowd of tax collectors was there, along with others who were eating with them.

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Entertainments: Often Scenes of Great Intemperance 1 Samuel 25:36

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

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Entertainments: Often Scenes of Great Intemperance Daniel 5:3, 4

Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines. / As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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Entertainments: Often Scenes of Great Intemperance Hosea 7:5

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

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Entertainments: Portions of, often Sent to the Absent 2 Samuel 11:8

Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

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Entertainments: Portions of, often Sent to the Absent Nehemiah 8:10

Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

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Entertainments: Portions of, often Sent to the Absent Esther 9:19

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

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Entertainments: Preparations Made For Genesis 18:6, 7

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.” / Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

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Entertainments: Preparations Made For Proverbs 9:2

She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

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Entertainments: Preparations Made For Matthew 22:4

Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

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Entertainments: Preparations Made For Luke 15:23

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate.

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Entertainments: Served often by Hired Servants Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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