Exodus 32:5
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5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it, and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a festival to the Lord.”
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2 Kings 10:20
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20 Jehu decreed, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.(A)
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Leviticus 23:37
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37 “These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall celebrate as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the Lord offerings by fire[a]—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day(A)—
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- 23.37 Or gifts
Leviticus 23:2
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2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are the appointed festivals of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed festivals.(A)
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1 Corinthians 5:8
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8 Therefore, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.(A)
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Hosea 8:14
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14 Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour his strongholds.(A)
Hosea 8:11
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11 When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin,
they became to him altars for sinning.
2 Chronicles 30:5
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5 So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the Lord the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers as prescribed.(A)
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2 Kings 16:11
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11 The priest Uriah built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did the priest Uriah build it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.
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1 Kings 21:9
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9 She wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the assembly;
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1 Kings 12:32-33
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32 Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.(A) 33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had selected on his own; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.(B)
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1 Samuel 14:35
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35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.(A)
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Leviticus 23:21
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21 On that same day you shall make proclamation; you shall hold a holy convocation; you shall not work at your occupations. This is a statute forever in all your settlements throughout your generations.(A)
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Leviticus 23:4
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4 “These are the appointed festivals of the Lord, the holy convocations, that you shall celebrate at the time appointed for them.(A)
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Exodus 32:4
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4 He took these from them, formed them in a mold,[a] and cast an image of a calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”(A)
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- 32.4 Or fashioned it with an engraving tool; meaning of Heb uncertain
Exodus 12:14
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14 “This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.(A)
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Exodus 10:9
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9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; we will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, because we have the Lord’s festival to celebrate.”(A)
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