Nehemiah 8:10

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Then he told them, “Go, eat rich foods, drink sweet drinks, and send portions to those who cannot provide for themselves. Today is a holy day for the Lord. Don’t be sad because the joy you have in the Lord is your strength.”

Cross References

1 Kings 8:66

On the eighth day he dismissed the people. They blessed the king and went to their tents. They rejoiced with cheerful hearts for all the blessings the Lord had given his servant David and his people Israel.

1 Chronicles 16:27

Splendor and majesty are in his presence. Strength and joy are where he is.

Nehemiah 8:11

So the Levites calmed all the people by saying, “Listen. Today is a holy day. Don’t be sad.”

Nehemiah 8:12

Then all the people went to eat and drink and to send portions. They had a big, joyful celebration because they understood the words that had been explained to them.

Esther 9:19

That is why the Jews who live in the villages and in the unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a holiday for feasting and celebration. They also send gifts of food to one another.

Esther 9:22

They were to observe them just like the days when the Jews freed themselves from their enemies. In that month their grief turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He declared that these days are to be days for feasting and celebrating and for sending gifts of food to one another, especially gifts to the poor.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel find joy in their creator. Let the people of Zion rejoice over their king.

Psalm 89:17

because you are the glory of their strength. By your favor you give us victory.

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one’s strength.

Ecclesiastes 11:2

Divide what you have into seven parts, or even into eight, because you don’t know what disaster may happen on earth.

Ecclesiastes 2:24

There is nothing better for people to do than to eat, drink, and find satisfaction in their work. I saw that even this comes from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

It is a gift from God to be able to eat and drink and experience the good that comes from every kind of hard work.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

At last I have seen what is good and beautiful: It is to eat and drink and to enjoy the good in all our hard work under the sun during the brief lives God gives us. That is our lot ⌞in life⌟.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, enjoy eating your food, and drink your wine cheerfully, because God has already accepted what you’ve done.

Song of Solomon 5:1

My bride, my sister, I will come to my garden. I will gather my myrrh with my spice. I will eat my honeycomb with my honey. I will drink my wine with my milk. Eat, my friends! Drink and become intoxicated with expressions of love!

Isaiah 49:5

The Lord formed me in the womb to be his servant in order to bring Jacob back to him and gather Israel to him. (The Lord honors me, and my God has become my strength.)

Isaiah 61:10

I will find joy in the Lord. I will delight in my God. He has dressed me in the clothes of salvation. He has wrapped me in the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom with a priest’s turban, like a bride with her jewels.

Joel 2:23

People of Zion, be glad and find joy in the Lord your God. The Lord has given you the Teacher of Righteousness. He has sent the autumn rain and the spring rain as before.

Zechariah 14:21

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies. All who come to sacrifice will take some of them and cook in them. On that day there will no longer be any Canaanite  in the house of the Lord of Armies.

Luke 11:41

Give what is inside as a gift to the poor, and then everything will be clean  for you.

2 Corinthians 8:2

While they were being severely tested by suffering, their overflowing joy, along with their extreme poverty, has made them even more generous.

Philippians 3:4

although I could have confidence in my physical qualifications. If anyone else thinks that he can trust in something physical, I can claim even more.

Revelation 11:10

Those living on earth will gloat over the witnesses’ death. They will celebrate and send gifts to each other because these two prophets had tormented those living on earth.

1 Samuel 25:8

Ask your young men, and let them tell you. Be kind to my young men, since we have come on a special occasion. Please give us and your son David anything you can ⌞spare⌟.’ ”