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Nave Topical Bible
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Ingathering, Feast of
• Feasts
Scofield Reference Index
• Feasts
Thompson Chain Reference
• Weeks, Feast of
• Wedding Feasts
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Feasts
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Feasts, the Anniversary
• Feasts of Trumpets, the
• Feast of the Passover, the
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Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Movable Feasts and Fasts
• Matthias, Feast of Saint
• Matthew, Feast of Saint
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American Tract Society
• Feasts
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Feasts
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Unleavened Bread, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Love Feasts
• Feast of Asses
• Feast
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Feasts
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Love Feast (2)
• Love Feast
• Lights, Feast of
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Love-Feast
• Feasts
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King James Dictionary
• Feasting
• Feasted
• Feast
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Unleavened Bread, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Triumph of the Cross, Feast of the
• Simple Feast
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Feasts
People's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks Feast of
• Trumpets Feast of
• Tabernacles Feast of
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Trumpets Feast of
• Tabernacles The Feast of
• Love Feasts
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Love Feasts
• Feast
• Feast
Webster Dictionary
• Smell-Feast
• Feasting
• Feastful
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Feasts
• Love-Feasts
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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• Feast of Assumption
• Feast of Corpus Christi
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Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia
• Sabbath and Feasts
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Booths, Feast of
• Dedication, Feast of
• Fasts and Feasts
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Feasts
• Lots Feast of
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Asses, Feast of
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Assumption, Feast of the
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Ecclesiastical Feasts
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• Feast of Asses
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Dedication Feast
• Esther, Feast of
• Feasts
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• ܚܫܳܡܺܝܬ݂ܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Sacrificial Feast
• ἀγάπη
• ἀρχιτρίκλινος
• γάμος
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• זֶבַח
• חַג
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The feasts of Jehovah, as instituted under the lawas given by Moses, partake more of the character of commemorations, or assemblies of the congregation to celebrate special dealings of the Lord, and consequently special seasons in the history of His people, being called 'holy convocations.' A list of the yearly feasts is given in Leviticus 23 . The first mentioned is the Sabbath, and if this is counted as one, by considering the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread as one there are seven in all — the perfect number. If the Sabbath is not included, as that was a weekly festival, being the rest of God, and on which the others were founded, then the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread may be counted as two, and still there are seven. There can be no doubt that these seven feasts were typical of the ways of blessing from the cross to the millennium. They stand thus:

DATES. Leviticus 23 . ANTITYPES.

The Sabbath. Leviticus 23 :. 1-3 .

Christ our Passover

Abib 14th. Passover Feast. Leviticus 23:5-8 .} is slain: "let us keep

" 15th. Feast of Unleavened Bread. } the feast," that is, of

unleavened bread.

First Fruits (barley ), 'day after the } The Resurrection.

Sabbath.' Leviticus 23:9-14 . }

Zif. [Seven Sabbaths intervene.]

Sivan. Pentecost: Feast of Weeks: First } Descent of the Holy

Fruits (wheat ). Leviticus 23:15-22 . } Spirit and the Church

formed.

Tammuz.

Ab. [The present interval.]

Elul.

Israel awakened:

Tisri 1st. Feast of Trumpets. Leviticus 23:23-25 .} they afflict their souls,

10th. Day of Atonement. Leviticus 23:26-32 .} receive their Messiah,

15th. Feast of Tabernacles: ingathering } and are brought into

of the vintage. Leviticus 23:33-44 . } blessing in the millennium.

These seven are called 'the set feasts.' Numbers 29:39; 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 31:3; Nehemiah 10:33 . Also 'holy convocations,' when the people assembled together to offer the various offerings, and thus be reminded of their association with the living God, to whom they owed all their blessings.To ensure this at least thrice in the year, it was enjoined that all the males should appear before the Lord three times in the year, and they must not appear empty. These times were at the Feast of Unleavened Bread (no doubt including the Passover); the Feast of Weeks, or of Harvest; and the Feast of Tabernacles, or 'of Ingathering.' Exodus 23:14-17; Deuteronomy 16:16 . See PASSOVER, etc.

There are two other Feasts mentioned as yearly which were not apparently ordered of God. The 25th of Chisleu, the Feast of Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabeus when the temple was re-dedicated after being defiled by Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 165. John 10:22 . The other, the Feast of Purim, on the 14th and 15th of Adar, when the Jews were delivered from the threatened destruction plotted by Haman. Esther 9:21,26 .