Birthdays Flashcards
cursed be the day wherein I was born
Jeremiah 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Pharaoh’s birthday
Genesis 40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
let the day perish wherein i was born
Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?
Job 7:1 “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?”
Herod’s birthday, John the Baptist’s death
Matthew 14:6-11 “But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.”v7 “Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.” v8 “And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.” v9 “And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.” v10 “And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.” v11 “And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.”
And his sons went and feasted in their houses, everyone his day
Job 1:4 “And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.” v5 “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”
Day of death better than day of birth
Ecclesiastes 7:1 “A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.”
Observer of times (horoscopes)
Deuteronomy 18:10-14 “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,” v11 “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.” v12 “For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.” v13 “Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.” v14 “For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.”
judgment for astrologers, stargazers, monthly prognosticators.
Isaiah 47:13 “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.” v14 “Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.”
