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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Luke 14:7 NT

  He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,

• Luke 14:8 NT

  “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

• 1 Samuel 9:23 OT

  Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’ ”

• 1 Samuel 9:24 OT

  The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because it has been kept for you for the appointed time, for I said, ‘I have…

• John 13:26 NT

  Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

• 2 Samuel 11:8 OT

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

• Nehemiah 8:10 OT

  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

• Esther 9:19 OT

  Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

• Luke 14:18 NT

  They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:24 NT

  For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

• Luke 14:22 NT

  “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

• Luke 14:23 NT

  “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

• Esther 1:8 OT

  In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

• Esther 1:9 OT

  Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

• Matthew 14:11 NT

  His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady; and she brought it to her mother.

• Luke 13:24 NT

  “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

• Luke 13:25 NT

  When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

• 1 Samuel 9:13 OT

  As soon as you have come into the city, you will immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now…

• Mark 8:6 NT

  He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

• Mark 14:26 NT

  When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Amos 6:5 OT

  who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

• Mark 6:22 NT

  When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”

• Luke 15:25 NT

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Daniel 5:3 OT

  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.