100 Bible Verses About Rosh Hashanah
Bible verses about Rosh Hashanah
Delve into the heart of Rosh Hashanah through the illuminating lens of Scripture. Discover how ancient traditions resonate with timeless truths, offering profound insights into God's sovereignty and our place within His divine plan. By exploring relevant Bible verses, we gain a deeper understanding of this sacred time, recognizing its significance not just as a historical event, but as a spiritual opportunity for reflection, repentance, and renewal. Let the Word guide you as you embrace the call to listen to the shofar's blast, a sound that stirs the soul and beckons us closer to the Almighty.
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Deuteronomy 1:42 (KJV)
And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
Rosh Hashanah Bible Verses: New Beginnings & Remembrance
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.
Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.
And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.
And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
And he shall offer his offering unto the Lord, one he lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.
But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,
And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
The verses explored reveal Rosh Hashanah as more than just the Jewish New Year. They paint a picture of a divinely ordained time for remembrance, reflection, and renewed commitment. From Leviticus’s call for a sacred memorial marked by trumpet blasts to Nehemiah's emphasis on joy and communal reconciliation, and Isaiah's potent invitation to seek God during this season, these scriptures underscore the profound spiritual significance of Rosh Hashanah. They challenge us to examine our lives, acknowledge our shortcomings, and return to God with sincere repentance. As the shofar sounds and a new year begins, may we be mindful of His enduring covenant, rededicate ourselves to His will, and embrace the promise of a fresh start, both individually and as a community, striving for righteousness and peace in the year to come.