Birthday (Birth-day)
Birthday (Birth-day)
The only scriptural notices of birth-days being kept are in reference to Pharaoh, Gen 40:20; and to Herod Antipas, when John the Baptist lost his life. Mat 14:6; Mar 6:21. It is thought by some that the sons of Job who feasted ‘every one his day’ did so on their birth-days. Job 1:4; Job 1:13. We do not read that the Israelites had any such custom; and the Preacher says the day of death is better than the day of one’s birth. Ecc 7:1.