Deuteronomy 12:6-7
12:6 And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared,
your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
12:7 Both you and your families
must feast there before the
Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he
has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:11-12
12:11 Then you must come to the place the
Lord your God chooses for his name to reside, bringing
everything I am commanding you – your burnt offerings, sacrifices, tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared,
and all your choice votive offerings which you devote to him.
12:12 You shall rejoice in the presence of the
Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages
(since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).
Deuteronomy 16:10-15
16:10 Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks
before the
Lord your God with the voluntary offering
that you will bring, in proportion to how he
has blessed you.
16:11 You shall rejoice before him
– you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites in your villages,
the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows among you – in the place where the
Lord chooses to locate his name.
16:12 Furthermore, remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so be careful to observe these statutes.
The Festival of Temporary Shelters
16:13 You must celebrate the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days, at the time of the grain and grape harvest.
16:14 You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.
16:15 You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!
Psalms 43:4
43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to the God who gives me ecstatic joy,
so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
Psalms 105:3
105:3 Boast about his holy name!
Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
Isaiah 62:8-9
62:8 The Lord swears an oath by his right hand,
by his strong arm:
“I will never again give your grain
to your enemies as food,
and foreigners will not drink your wine,
which you worked hard to produce.
62:9 But those who harvest the grain will eat it,
and will praise the Lord.
Those who pick the grapes will drink the wine
in the courts of my holy sanctuary.”