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,

Exodus 34:6KJV

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.

Joshua 9:20KJV

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.

Joshua 23:16KJV

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.

Nehemiah 2:9KJV

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 29:12KJV

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:

Numbers 3:50KJV

The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

Numbers 26:28KJV

Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

2 Chronicles 2:15KJV

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.

Numbers 11:31KJV

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.

1 Samuel 1:3KJV

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:15KJV

And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Exodus 6:23KJV

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.

Isaiah 29:10KJV

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.

Judges 4:8KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 13:8KJV

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.

Judges 9:44KJV

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.

Jeremiah 9:15KJV

But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

Deuteronomy 11:7KJV

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.

1 Kings 2:8KJV

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:

Isaiah 30:9KJV

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;

1 Samuel 6:17KJV

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.

Isaiah 30:5KJV

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 9:27KJV

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

Genesis 36:4KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 19:12KJV

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.

Exodus 16:13KJV

And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 2:11KJV

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:

Isaiah 5:26KJV

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.

Numbers 28:2KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 1:42KJV

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:

Deuteronomy 14:24KJV

The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

Exodus 15:5KJV

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.

Isaiah 36:22KJV

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Exodus 17:4KJV

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.

2 Samuel 13:12KJV

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:

Isaiah 42:5KJV

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:3KJV

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Psalms 119:61KJV

And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17:12KJV

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.

Genesis 30:1KJV

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Isaiah 42:20KJV

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:

Isaiah 40:6KJV

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.

Exodus 5:2KJV

And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

1 Samuel 27:4KJV

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife.

Genesis 36:12KJV

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.

Isaiah 6:13KJV

And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

1 Samuel 19:1KJV

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Numbers 17:4KJV

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.

Genesis 18:30KJV

Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Proverbs 3:9KJV

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 20:4KJV

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.

Jeremiah 6:9KJV

And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Genesis 19:37KJV

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

Deuteronomy 29:27KJV

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.

1 Samuel 25:21KJV

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:1KJV

Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

Genesis 23:18KJV

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

1 Samuel 24:15KJV

And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

Genesis 29:5KJV

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Psalms 16:6KJV

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:

Genesis 40:10KJV

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:5KJV

And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

Numbers 31:33KJV

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.

Genesis 47:9KJV

Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Isaiah 43:27KJV

For thy servant David’s sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

Psalms 132:10KJV

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 18:12KJV

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.

Exodus 19:24KJV

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,

Numbers 6:14KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 2:5KJV

And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 27:23KJV

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.

Judges 1:35KJV

What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

Psalms 25:12KJV

Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:16KJV

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;

Numbers 1:45KJV

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!

Numbers 14:2KJV

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

Numbers 31:10KJV

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Psalms 37:10KJV

And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

Isaiah 44:4KJV

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.

Judges 9:35KJV

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Genesis 32:31KJV

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.

1 Samuel 10:25KJV

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.

Judges 20:21KJV

And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Exodus 32:9KJV

And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

Judges 18:15KJV

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:

Genesis 19:4KJV

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.

Isaiah 45:14KJV

Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:22KJV

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Genesis 21:2KJV

Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Isaiah 5:22KJV

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.

Numbers 15:35KJV

And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

Joshua 3:5KJV

And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the Lord hath spoken unto Moses,

Numbers 15:22KJV

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.

Isaiah 36:10KJV

Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

Ruth 2:5KJV

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Numbers 15:16KJV

The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

Genesis 49:32KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Leviticus 6:1KJV

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Job 41:3KJV

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Isaiah 33:8KJV

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.