Deuteronomy 16:11

11And ayou shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.

Deuteronomy 16:14

14 bYou shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

Nehemiah 8:10-12

10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and csend portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” 11So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.” 12And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because dthey had understood the words that were declared to them.

Esther 8:17

17And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and ea holiday. fAnd many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, gfor fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Esther 9:22

22as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into ha holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Psalms 118:11-16

11They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
12 iThey surrounded me like bees;
they went out like ja fire among thorns;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
13I was kpushed hard,
Hebrew You (that is, the enemy) pushed me hard
so that I was falling,
but the Lord helped me.
14 The Lord is my strength and my song;
mhe has become my salvation.
15Glad songs of salvation
are in the tents of the righteous:
n“The right hand of the Lord odoes valiantly,
16the right hand of the Lord exalts,
the right hand of the Lord pdoes valiantly!”

Luke 11:41

41But qgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, reverything is clean for you.

Revelation of John 11:10

10and sthose who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and texchange presents, because these two prophets uhad been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.
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