Nehemiah 8:10

Nehemiah urged them to feast, share with the needy, and not grieve, for the joy of the LORD was their strength. Joy in God, not sorrow, was to mark this holy day.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 28:7–8Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
• Prov 17:22A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
• 2 Cor 12:8–9Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
• Eccl 9:7Go your way — eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
• Isa 12:1–3In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
• Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
• Ps 149:2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
• Esth 9:19Therefore 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.
• 2 Cor 8:2how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
• Esth 9:22as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
• Eccl 3:13Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
• Eccl 2:24There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
• Phil 3:4though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:
• Isa 35:1–4The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
• 1 Tim 6:17–18Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Eccl 5:18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
• Song 5:1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
• Isa 6:7–8He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
• Eccl 11:2Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• Job 31:16–18“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Deut 26:11–13You shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is among you.
• Rev 11:10Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

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