Quotes About Invitation

So the prophet said to the man of God, “Come home with me and eat some bread.”

Then one of them said, “Please come with your servants.” “I will come,” he replied.

And he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our brothers in all the land of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands, so that they may join us.

Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.

“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”

“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.

Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment.

My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.

The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Come, all you beasts of the field; eat greedily, all you beasts of the forest.

Your gates will always stand open; they will never be shut, day or night, so that the wealth of the nations may be brought into you, with their kings being led in procession.

“I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ëHere I am! Here I am!í

“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them, and bring them to one of the chambers of the house of the LORD to offer them a drink of wine.”