Genesis 18:7
18:7 Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant,
who quickly prepared it.
Psalms 63:5
63:5 As if with choice meat you satisfy my soul.
My mouth joyfully praises you,
Proverbs 9:2
9:2 She has prepared her meat, she has mixed her wine;
she also has arranged her table.
Isaiah 25:6
25:6 The Lord who commands armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain.
At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine –
tender meat and choicest wine.
Isaiah 65:13-14
65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:
“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!
Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!
Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts!
But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts;
you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.
Matthew 22:2-14
22:2 “The kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.
22:3 He sent his slaves
to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, but they would not come.
22:4 Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready.
My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’
22:5 But they were indifferent and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.
22:6 The
rest seized his slaves, insolently mistreated them, and killed them.
22:7 The
king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death
and set their city
on fire.
22:8 Then he said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but the ones who had been invited were not worthy.
22:9 So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.’
22:10 And those slaves went out into the streets and gathered all they found, both bad and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
22:11 But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
22:12 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But he had nothing to say.
22:13 Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!’
22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.”