Definition of "banqueting-house" [banqueting-house]

• A house where banquets are given. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Sister [my lord attend you in the banqueting-house,] your husband is wondrous discontented."
• "God is pleased sometimes to give us especial discoveries of himself and his love, to fill the heart with his kindness; Christ takes us into the banqueting-house, and gives our hearts their fills of love; and this by some signal work of his Spirit, overpowering us with a sense of love in the unspeakable privilege of adoption, and so fills our souls with joy unspeakable and glorious."
• "In this place it is, by common consent, rendered “A defence” or protection, being so used either by allusion to that refreshment that the Lord Christ, the great bridegroom, gives to his bride in his banqueting-house, [72] or rather in pursuit of the former similitude of the cloud that was over the tabernacle and the ark, which represented the glory of that people."