Deuteronomy 12:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:22

And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.

Nehemiah 8:9

And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

Isaiah 23:18

And her goods and her trade will be holy to the Lord: they will not be kept back or stored up; for her produce will be for those living in the Lord's land, to give them food for their needs, and fair clothing.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.

Ezekiel 44:3

But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.

Joel 1:16

Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

Joel 2:26

You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:

Leviticus 23:40

On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.

Malachi 2:13

And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

Acts 2:46

And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

Deuteronomy 12:12

And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

Deuteronomy 12:8

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

Deuteronomy 14:23

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.

Deuteronomy 14:26

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;

Deuteronomy 15:20

But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.

Deuteronomy 26:11

And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

Deuteronomy 27:7

And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

Philippians 4:4

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.