And Saul built an altar there to the Lord (this was the first altar that Saul built to the Lord).

And Urijah the priest built the altar, according to all [the directions] which King Ahaz sent from Damascus.

Because Ephraim has multiplied altars, [his] beloved altars have become sins to him.

And Israel has forgotten Him that made him, and they have built palaces, and Judah has multiplied walled cities: but I will send fire on his cities, and it shall devour their foundations.

Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which you shall call holy assemblies, these are My feasts.

These [are] the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall call in their seasons.

And you shall call this day a convocation: it shall be holy to you; you shall do no customary work on it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations in all your habitations.

These [are] the feasts to the Lord, which you shall call holy convocations, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, whole burnt offerings and their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, that for each day on its day:

And it was written in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth in a chief place among the people.

And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn festival to Baal. So they made a proclamation.

And they established a decree that a proclamation should go through all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come and keep the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem; for the multitude had not done it lately according to the Scripture.

And he received them from their hands, and formed them with an engraving tool; and he made them a molded calf, and said, These [are] your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses said, We will go with the young and the old, with our sons and daughters, and our sheep and oxen; for it is a feast to the Lord.

And this day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; you shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.

And Jeroboam appointed a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, according to the feast in the land of Judah;

and went up to the altar which he made in Bethel to sacrifice to the heifers which he made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. And he went up to the altar which he had made, on the fifteenth dy in the eighth month, at the feast which he devised out of his own heart; and he made a feast to the children of Israel, and went up to the altar to sacrifice.

So then let us observe the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.