Quotes About Hospitality

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

And the steward took the men into Josephís house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.

“So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

He asked for water, and she gave him milk. In a magnificent bowl she brought him curds.

“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.

her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her fatherís house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.

His father-in-law, the girlís father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girlís father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girlís father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”

The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.

On the fifth day, he got up early in the morning to depart, but the girlís father said, “Please refresh your heart.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

When the man got up to depart with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girlís father, said to him, “Look, the day is drawing to a close. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, that your heart may be merry. Then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey home.”

When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”

He continued, “Come, let us try to reach one of these towns to spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.

That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”

The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,