Deuteronomy 12:7

Modern English Version

There you must eat before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, where the Lord your God has blessed you.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:22

So they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king a second time, for they anointed him to the Lord as a ruler and Zadok as a priest.

Nehemiah 8:9

Then Nehemiah the magistrate, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were teaching the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the Lord your God. Stop mourning and weeping.” (This was because all the people wept when they heard the words of the Law.)

Ecclesiastes 3:12

I know that there is nothing better for people than to be glad and do good in their life,

Ecclesiastes 3:13

and also that everyone should eat and drink and experience good in all their labor. This is a gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:18

This is what I have observed to be good and pleasing: to eat and drink and see benefit in all one’s labor with which he toils under the sun the few days of his life, which God has given to him, for this is his reward.

Isaiah 23:18

Her merchandise and her harlot’s wages shall be set apart to the Lord. It shall not be treasured or stored up, for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for choice clothing.

Isaiah 62:9

But those who have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord; and those who have brought it shall drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:3

As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before the Lord. He shall enter by the way of the vestibule of the gate and shall go out by the same way.

Joel 1:16

Has not the food been cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Joel 2:26

You will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and you will praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you; and My people will never again be shamed.

Leviticus 23:40

You shall take on the first day the branches of majestic trees—branches of palm trees, branches of leafy trees, and willows from a brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

Malachi 2:13

This is the second thing you do: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and crying out, because He no longer regards the offering, nor receives it with good will from your hand.

Acts 2:46

And continuing daily with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

Deuteronomy 12:12

You will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 12:18

Rather you must eat them before the Lord your God in the place which the Lord your God will choose —you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, and the Levite that is within your gates—and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake to do.

Deuteronomy 12:8

You are not to do all the things that we are doing here today, where every man does whatever is right in his own eyes.

Deuteronomy 14:23

You must eat before the Lord your God, in the place in which He shall choose to place His name, the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil, and of the firstborn of your herds and of your flocks so that you may learn to always fear the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 14:26

Then you may spend that money for whatever your heart desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your heart desires, and you may eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall rejoice, you, and your household,

Deuteronomy 15:20

You shall eat it before the Lord your God year by year in the place where the Lord shall choose, you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11

You shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner who is among you.

Deuteronomy 27:7

You must offer peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 28:47

because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things.

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!