Lexicon :: Strong's H2282 - ḥāḡ

Moses replied, “We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the LORD’s festival.”

“This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

“For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of my festival offering must not remain until morning.

When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of it and made an announcement: “There will be a festival to the LORD tomorrow.”

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] as I commanded you, for you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

“Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the turn of the agricultural year.

“Do not present[fn] the blood for my sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.

“The Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD is on the fifteenth day of the same month. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters[fn] to the LORD begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

“You are to celebrate the LORD’s festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month for seven days after you have gathered the produce of the land. There will be complete rest on the first day and complete rest on the eighth day.

“You are to celebrate it as a festival to the LORD seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; celebrate it in the seventh month.

“On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival; unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days.

“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; you do not do any daily work. You are to celebrate a seven-day festival for the LORD.

“You are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you.

“You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Shelters,

They also said, “Look, there’s an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month,[fn] at the festival.

Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time in the presence of the LORD our God, seven days, and seven more days ​— ​fourteen days.[fn]

Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.

So all the men of Israel were assembled in the king’s presence at the festival; this was in the seventh month.[fn]

So Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time for seven days.

He followed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

A very large assembly of people was gathered in Jerusalem to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day after day with loud instruments.

The Israelites who were present in Judah also observed the Passover at that time and the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.

They observed the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful, having changed the Assyrian king’s attitude toward them, so that he supported them[fn] in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.

Ezra[fn] read out of the book of the law of God every day, from the first day to the last. The Israelites celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

Blow the ram’s horn on the day of our feasts[fn]

during the new moon

and during the full moon.

The LORD is God and has given us light.

Bind the festival sacrifice with cords

to the horns of the altar.

Woe to Ariel,[fn] Ariel,

the city where David camped!

Continue year after year;

let the festivals recur.

Your singing will be like that

on the night of a holy festival,

and your heart will rejoice

like one who walks to the music of a flute,

going up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the Rock of Israel.

“Then the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the festivals, New Moons, and Sabbaths ​— ​for all the appointed times of the house of Israel ​— ​will be the prince’s responsibility. He will provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and fellowship offerings to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to celebrate the Passover, a festival of seven days during which unleavened bread will be eaten.

“During the seven days of the festival, he will provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD on each of the seven days, along with a male goat each day for a sin offering.

“At the festival that begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month,[fn] he will provide the same things for seven days ​— ​the same sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, and oil.

“At the festivals and appointed times, the grain offering will be half a bushel with the bull, half a bushel with the ram, and whatever he wants to give with the lambs, along with a gallon of oil for every half bushel.

I will put an end to all her celebrations:

her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths —

all her festivals.

What will you do on a festival day,

on the day of the LORD’s feast?

I hate, I despise, your feasts!

I can’t stand the stench

of your solemn assemblies.

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will cause everyone[fn] to wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.