Exodus 23:17
23:17 At
three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord
God.
Exodus 34:23
34:23 At three times
in the year all your men
must appear before the Lord
God,
the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 16:16
16:16 Three times a year all your males must appear before the
Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him
empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 16:2
16:2 You must sacrifice the Passover animal
(from the flock or the herd) to the
Lord your God in the place where he
chooses to locate his name.
Deuteronomy 7:8
7:8 Rather it is because of his
love
for you and his faithfulness to the promise
he solemnly vowed
to your ancestors
that the
Lord brought you out with great power,
redeeming
you from the place of slavery, from the power
of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 30:1
The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation
30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.
Deuteronomy 1:7-19
1:7 Get up now,
resume your journey, heading for
the Amorite hill country, to all its areas
including the arid country,
the highlands, the Shephelah,
the Negev,
and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.
1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you.
Go, occupy the territory that I,
the
Lord, promised
to give to your ancestors
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”
1:9 I also said to you at that time, “I am no longer able to sustain you by myself.
1:10 The
Lord your God has increased your population
to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
1:11 Indeed, may the
Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you
just as he said he would!
1:12 But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?
1:13 Select wise and practical
men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders.”
1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.
1:15 So I chose
as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials.
1:16 I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they
should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens
and judge fairly,
whether between one citizen and another
or a citizen and a resident foreigner.
1:17 They
must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly
and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.
Instructions at Kadesh Barnea
1:18 So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.
1:19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
Zechariah 8:19-23
8:19 “The
Lord who rules over all says, ‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth
months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’
8:20 The
Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come.
8:21 The inhabitants of one will go to another and say, “Let’s go up at once to ask the favor of the
Lord, to seek the
Lord who rules over all. Indeed, I’ll go with you.”’
8:22 Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the
Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor.
8:23 The
Lord who rules over all says, ‘In those days ten people from all languages and nations will grasp hold of – indeed, grab – the robe of one Jew and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”
Acts 2:5-11
2:5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem.
2:6 When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
2:7 Completely baffled, they said, “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
2:8 And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,
2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
2:11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”