Judges 9:27

held festival held a merry-making. The marg. offered a praise offeringis based upon the special sense of the word in Leviticus 19:24; here, more generally, a vintage feast like the one described in Judges 21:19 ff. Cf. the orgiastic feasts held by the Carthaginians, no doubt in the temples; North-Sem. lnscr., p. 121 f.