Quotes about Guests
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
- Genesis 18:4
And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- Genesis 18:5
and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
- Genesis 19:2
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- Genesis 19:3
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
- Genesis 19:8
So he brought him to his house and fed his donkeys. And they washed their feet and ate and drank.
- Judges 19:21
As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
- 1 Samuel 9:13
Two hundred men from Jerusalem accompanied Absalom. They had been invited as guests and they went along innocently, for they knew nothing about the matter.
- 2 Samuel 15:11
Now Adonijah and all his guests were finishing their feast when they heard the sound of the ram’s horn. “Why is the city in such a loud uproar?” asked Joab.
- 1 Kings 1:41
At this, all the guests of Adonijah arose in terror and scattered.
- 1 Kings 1:49
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
- Proverbs 9:18