From Nave’s Topical Bible
Tabernacles, Feast of
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 16Passages listed
- 9Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Also called FEAST OF INGATHERING
- InstitutedExodus 23:16Exodus 34:22Leviticus 23:34–43
- Design ofLeviticus 23:42Leviticus 23:43
- The law read in connection with, every seventh yearDeuteronomy 31:10–12Nehemiah 8:18
- Observance of, after the captivityEzra 3:4Nehemiah 8:14–18
- By JesusJohn 7:2John 7:14
- Observance of, omittedNehemiah 8:17
- Penalty for not observingZechariah 14:16–19
- Jeroboam institutes an idolatrous feast to correspond to, in the eighth month1 Kings 12:321 Kings 12:331 Chronicles 27:11
The passages, in Bible order (16)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 23:16
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Commentary on Exodus 23:161 voice
And the feast of harvest,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 34:22
And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
Commentary on Exodus 34:221 voice
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 23:34–43
“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
Commentary on Leviticus 23:34–432 voices
The feast of tabernacles - In this solemnity the people left their houses, and dwelt in booths or tents made of the branches of goodly trees and thick trees, (of what kind the text does not specify), together with palm-trees and willows of the brook, Lev 23:40. And in these they dwelt seven days, in commemoration of their forty years sojourning and dwelling in tents in the wilderness while destitute of any fixed habitations. In imitation of this feast among the people of God, the Gentiles had their feasts of tents.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 23:42
You are to dwell in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
Commentary on Leviticus 23:422 voices
Booths - According to Jewish tradition, what were used at the Feast of Tabernacles were strictly tabernacula, structures of boards, with a covering of boughs. The booth in which the Israelite kept the Feast, and the tent which was his ordinary abode in the wilderness, had this in common - they were temporary places of sojourn, they belonged to camp-life. The seven days of abode in the booths of the festival was thus a fair symbol of the forty years of abode in tents in the wilderness.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days,.... So that it seems they were not obliged to dwell in them on the eighth day, which was an holy convocation, a sabbath in which no servile work was to be done as the first, Lev 23:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Leviticus 23:43
so that your descendants may know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
Commentary on Leviticus 23:432 voices
That your generations may know, etc. - By the institution of this feast God had two great objects in view: 1. To perpetuate the wonderful display of his providence and grace in bringing them out of Egypt, and in preserving them in the wilderness. 2. To excite and maintain in them a spirit of gratitude and obedience, by leading them to consider deeply the greatness of the favors which they had received from his most merciful hands. Signal displays of the mercy, kindness, and providential care of God should be particularly remembered.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 31:10–12
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
Commentary on Deuteronomy 31:10–122 voices
And Moses commanded them,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
At the end of every seven years - thou shalt read this law - Every seventh year was a year of release, Deu 15:1, at which time the peoples minds, being under a peculiar degree of solemnity, were better disposed to hear and profit by the words of God. I suppose on this ground also that the whole book of Deuteronomy is meant, as it alone contains an epitome of the whole Pentateuch. And in this way some of the chief Jewish rabbins understand this place.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 1 Kings 12:32
And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
Commentary on 1 Kings 12:322 voices
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Ordained a feast - The Jews held their feast of tabernacles on the fifteenth day of the seventh month; Jeroboam, who would meet the prejudices of the people as far as he could, appointed a similar feast on the fifteenth of the eighth month; thus appearing to hold the thing while he subverted the ordinance.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 1 Kings 12:33
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
Commentary on 1 Kings 12:332 voices
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
This verse belongs to 1 Kings 13 rather than to 1 Kings 12, being intended as an introduction to what follows. Which he had devised of his own heart - The entire system of Jeroboam receives its condemnation in these words. His main fault was that he left a ritual and a worship where all was divinely authorized, for ceremonies and services which were wholly of his own devising. Not being a prophet, he had no authority to introduce religious innovations.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 1 Chronicles 27:11
The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, a Zerahite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- Ezra 3:4
They also celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles in accordance with what is written, and they offered burnt offerings daily based on the number prescribed for each day.
Commentary on Ezra 3:42 voices
Or rather let them learn of you, who are so well instructed in such histories, how that Jeshua the son of Josedek the priest, and his brother, and Zerubbabel the wise, the son of Salathiel, and Ezra the priest and scribe of the law, as the temple was being built after the captivity, the feast of tabernacles being at hand (which was a great feast and time of assembly and prayer in Israel), gathered the people together with one accord in the great court within the first gate, which is toward the east, and prepared the altar to God, and there offered their gifts and kept the feast.
Athanasius of Alexandria· DEFENSE BEFORE CONSTANTIUS 18, 373Patristic
And they kept the feast of booths, etc. The Feast of Booths, which in the Gospel is called in Greek Skenopegia, that is, the pitching of booths, was a festival of seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during which the …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
- Nehemiah 8:14–18
And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
Commentary on Nehemiah 8:14–182 voices
And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded by Moses,.... The children of Israel, to be observed by them; either by hearing it read the day before, or by conversation with Ezra, they perceived it was enjoined in the law, particularly in Lev 23:39 that the children of Israel should dwell in booths, in the feast of the seventh month: which was the same month, and this the second day of it, and therefore the time drew near for keeping it; for it was to begin the fifteenth.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
And they found written in the law that the Lord commanded, etc. These things are more fully written in Leviticus, and that they were ordered to be remembered for that long journey during which the Lord, bringing His people out of Egypt, made them dwell …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
- Nehemiah 8:17
The whole assembly who had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.
Commentary on Nehemiah 8:171 voice
And the people went out, and brought back, etc. On the house-top, he says, on the roof of the houses. For in Palestine they do not have gabled roofs on the houses, but the tops of all the houses are flat, with beams and boards …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
- Nehemiah 8:18
Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.
Commentary on Nehemiah 8:182 voices
He read from the book of the law of God, etc. As far as the meaning of the text goes, the Feast of Tabernacles was typically celebrated for seven days, that is, from the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the moon, up to …
Bede· Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah, 735Patristic
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God,.... That is, Ezra; this was done by him every day during the feast, whereas only the first and last days were the holy convocations on which it seems to have been read: and they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the manner; prescribed in Lev 23:39.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Zechariah 14:16–19
Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Commentary on Zechariah 14:16–191 voice
(Verse 16.) And all who remain of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. LXX: And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Jerome· Commentary on Zechariah, 420Patristic
- John 7:2
However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
Commentary on John 7:21 voice
The Law of Moses then commanded that the Jews should hasten from the whole country round about to Jerusalem, there to celebrate in a type the feast of tabernacles. And the spiritual person will thence perceive the gathering together of all the Saints into Christ, when they shall be brought together from the whole world after the resurrection of the dead to the city which is above, the heavenly Jerusalem, there to offer the thank-offerings of the true pitching of tabernacles, that is of the framing and abidance of bodies, corruption having been destroyed and death fallen into death.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 3, 444Patristic
- John 7:14
About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
Commentary on John 7:142 voices
Now about the midst of the feast,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
Temple-befitting is the teaching of our Saviour: for where else should we rather hear the Divine Voice, save in the places where the Divinity is believed to dwell? For God tendeth all things, and will not be conceived of as circumscribed by space, in respect of His Own Nature, but is wholly uncontained by things that are, yet is it more meet that we should suppose that He dwells in the holy places, and we most reasonably deem that the will of the Divine Nature will specially be heard by us in sacred places.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4, 444Patristic