Nehemiah 8:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then he said to them, ‘Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared,  since today  is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, because the joy of the Lord is your strength.’  ,

Cross References

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.

Isaiah 61:10

I rejoice greatly in the  Lord, I exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a groom wears a turban and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Esther 9:19

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

2 Corinthians 8:2

During a severe trial brought about by affliction, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

Esther 9:22

because during those days the Jews gained relief from  their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.  They were to be days of feasting,  rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for a person than to eat, drink, and enjoy  , his work.  I have seen that even this is from God’s hand,

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Give a portion to seven or even to eight, for you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.

Philippians 3:4

although I have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Luke 11:41

But give from what is within to the poor,   , and then everything is clean   for you.

Song of Solomon 5:1

I have come to my garden #– #my sister, my bride. I gather  my myrrh with my spices. I eat my honeycomb with my honey. I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!  ,

Ecclesiastes 5:18

Here is what I have seen to be good:  It is appropriate to eat, drink, and experience good in all the labour one does under the sun during the few days of his life God has given him, because that is his reward.

Joel 2:23

Children of Zion,  rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God, because he gives you the autumn rain for your vindication.  , He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain  as before.

Revelation 11:10

Those who live on the earth will gloat  over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

1 Samuel 25:8

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favour with you, for we have come on a feast  day.  Please give whatever you have on hand to your servants and to your son David.” ’

Nehemiah 8:11

And the Levites quietened all the people, saying, ‘Be still,  since today  is holy. Don’t grieve.’

Nehemiah 8:12

Then all the people began to eat and drink, send portions, and have a great celebration,  because they had understood the words that were explained to them.

Zechariah 14:21

Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies. All who sacrifice will come and use the pots to cook in. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite  in the house of the Lord of Armies.

1 Kings 8:66

On the fifteenth day  he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes  rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the Lord had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

1 Chronicles 16:27

Splendour and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

Isaiah 49:5

And now, says the  Lord, who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel might be gathered to him; for I am honoured in the sight of the  Lord, and my God is my strength –