Nehemiah 8:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:66

And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

1 Chronicles 16:27

Honour and glory are before him: strength and joy are in his holy place.

Nehemiah 8:11

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

Nehemiah 8:12

And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

Esther 9:19

So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

Esther 9:22

As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

Psalm 89:17

For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

Proverbs 17:22

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.

Isaiah 49:5

And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.

Isaiah 61:10

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

Joel 2:23

Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

Zechariah 14:21

And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.

Luke 11:41

But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

Philippians 3:4

Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

Revelation 11:10

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

1 Samuel 25:8

If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.