1 Samuel 25:8 References

8 'Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on aa festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"

a Nehemiah 8:10-12, Esther 9:19, Esther 9:22

Nehemiah 8

10 Then he said to them, "Go, eat of the fat, drink of the sweet, and asend portions to him who has nothing prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

11 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be still, for the day is holy; do not be grieved."

12 All the people went away to eat, to drink, ato send portions and to celebrate a great festival, bbecause they understood the words which had been made known to them.

Esther 9

19 Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in athe rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a bholiday for rejoicing and feasting and csending portions of food to one another.

Esther 9

22 because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was aturned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and bsending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.