Banquets in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE ban’-kwet. 1. The Ancient Hebrew Customs: (1) “Banquet” and “banqueting” in the King James Version always include and stand for
Wine-drinking, not simply “feast” or “feasting” in our sense. Thus (Song 2:4), “He brought me to the banqueting-house” is literally, “the house of
Wine,” and Est 7:2 has in the Hebrew “a banquet of
Wine.” In the New Testament we see a reflection of the same fact in 1 Pet 4:3 the King James Version, “We walked in … excess of
Wine, banquetings” (Greek “drinkings”; the Revised Version (British and American) “carousings”). Compare Amos 6:7 the King James Version, “The banquet of them that stretched themselves,” where the reference seems to be to reclining at
Wine-drinkings. See MEALS. The Hebrew of Job 1:4, “make a banquet,” may refer to a social feast of a less objectionable sort (compare 41:6 the King James Version), though the Hebrew for “to drink” yayin “
Wine,” was used as synonymous with “banquet.” See SYMPOSIUM. Music, dancing and merriment usually attended all such festivities. Certainly the ancient Hebrews, like other peoples of the ancient East, were very fond of social feasting, and in Christ’s day had acquired, from contact with Greeks and Romans, luxurious and bibulous habits, that often carried them to excess in their social feasts. 2. In Christ’s Teaching and Practice: Among the Greeks the word for “feast” (doche) is from dechomai “to receive” (compare our English usage, “to receive” and “reception”). This word doche is used with poiein “to make,” to signify “to make” or “give a feast.” Compare Lk 5:29 where Levi “made a feast.” (1) In view of existing customs and abuses, Christ taught His followers when they gave a banquet to invite the poor, etc. (Lk 14:13), rather than, as the fashion of the day called for, to bid the rich and influential. Much in the New Testament that has to do with banquets and banquetings will be obscure to us of the West if we do not keep in mind the many marked differences of custom between the East and the West. (2) “Banquets” were usually given in the house of the host to specially invited guests (Lk 14:15; Jn 2:2), but much more freedom was accorded to the uninvited than we of the West are accustomed to, as one finds to be true everywhere in the East today. The custom of reclining at meals (see MEALS; TRICLINIUM, etc.) was everywhere in vogue among the well-to-do in Christ’s day, even in the case of the ordinary meals, the guest leaning upon…
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Banquets Scripture - Esther 7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of
Wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? and it shall be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom.
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Banquets Scripture - Esther 7:7 And the king arising from the banquet of
Wine in his wrath [went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
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Banquets Scripture - Esther 7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of
Wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther [was]. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
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Dining and Entertainment FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT AT BANQUETS The prophet Amos, although he denounced extravagant luxuries and sinful excesses, nevertheless has given us a description of the eating, drinking, and other customs at an Oriental banquet. This is the way he describes it: “And stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; that drink
Wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments” (Amos 6:4-6). The meat eaten at these suppers included the best lambs from the flock and calves that had been stall-fed. The drinking of
Wine at the feast was considered an important feature. Playing on stringed instruments was another activity and the guests evidently vied with one another in anointing their bodies with very costly ointments. Dancing was often a part of the entertainment at these feasts. When the Prodigal Son returned home, and his father celebrated with a feast, there was music and dancing (Luke 15:24, 25). Dancing was a social diversion of the Hebrew women and girls, especially when they made merry. Men did sometimes engage in it, as when David danced when the ark was brought to Jerusalem (II Samuel 6:14). But more often, it was the activity of the fair sex (cf. Jeremiah 31:4). But there is no Scriptural record that the Jewish men danced with the women, as is the modern custom of the West. Neither is there indication that there were public female dancers, as is true in some Eastern places today. The dancing of the daughter of Herodias (Matthew 14:6) before men at a sensual banquet was the kind introduced among the Jews by corrupt Greek influence. [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]
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