Nehemiah 8
TSK
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

blessed

1 Chronicles 29:20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. …

2 Chronicles 6:4 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who has with his …

Psalm 41:13 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. …

Psalm 72:18,19 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things…

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed …

1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…

Amen

Nehemiah 5:13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his …

Jeremiah 28:6 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform …

Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For your …

1 Corinthians 14:16 Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies …

with lifting

Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand to the …

Psalm 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, when I lift …

Psalm 63:4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

Psalm 134:2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting …

Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …

bowed

Genesis 24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

Exodus 4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited …

Exodus 12:27 That you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who …

2 Chronicles 20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all …

2 Chronicles 29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites …

with their faces

Leviticus 9:24 And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed on the …

Matthew 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, …

Revelation 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders …

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

Jeshua

Nehemiah 3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah…

Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up on the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, …

Nehemiah 10:9 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons …

Nehemiah 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the …

Bani

Nehemiah 3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him …

Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up on the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, …

Nehemiah 10:13 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

Sherebiah

Nehemiah 9:4 Then stood up on the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, …

Nehemiah 10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

Nehemiah 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the …

Ezra 8:18 And by the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of understanding, …

Akkub

Nehemiah 11:16,19 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the …

Nehemiah 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were …

Hodijah

Nehemiah 10:10,18 And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan…

Maaseiah

Nehemiah 8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made …

Nehemiah 3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house…

Nehemiah 12:41,42 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, …

Ezra 10:22 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, …

Kelita

Nehemiah 10:10 And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Ezra 10:23 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same …

Azariah

Nehemiah 3:23 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house…

Nehemiah 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

Nehemiah 12:33 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

Jozabad

Ezra 10:22,23 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, …

Hanan

Nehemiah 10:10 And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

Pelaiah

Nehemiah 10:10 And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

caused

Leviticus 10:11 And that you may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which …

Deuteronomy 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they …

2 Chronicles 17:7-9 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even …

2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …

Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek …

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah 7:65,70 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most …

Nehemiah 10:1 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, …

Ezra 2:63 And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the most …

Tirshatha. or, governor. Ezra

Ezra 7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave …

the Levites

Nehemiah 8:7,8 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah…

2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel has been without the true God, and without …

2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that taught the …

2 Chronicles 35:3 And said to the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy to the LORD…

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …

This day

Nehemiah 8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both …

Leviticus 23:24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in …

Numbers 29:1-6 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall …

mourn not

Deuteronomy 12:7,12 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice …

Deuteronomy 16:11,14,15 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, …

Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away …

Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for …

Malachi 2:13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with …

all the people

2 Kings 22:11,19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book …

2 Chronicles 34:19,21 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, …

Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified …

Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, …

2 Corinthians 7:9-11 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed …

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Go your way

Ecclesiastes 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, …

Ecclesiastes 3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good …

Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …

Ecclesiastes 9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a …

1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …

eat

Songs 5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my …

send

Deuteronomy 26:11-13 And you shall rejoice in every good thing which the LORD your God …

Esther 9:19,22 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelled in the unwalled towns…

Job 31:16-18 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the …

Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what …

Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell on the earth shall rejoice over them, and make …

the joy

Psalm 28:7,8 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and …

Psalm 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion …

Proverbs 17:22 A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

Isaiah 6:7,8 And he laid it on my mouth, and said, See, this has touched your …

Isaiah 12:1-3 And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though …

Isaiah 35:1-4 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and …

Isaiah 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my …

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your …

2 Corinthians 8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy …

2 Corinthians 12:8,9 For this thing I sought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me…

Philippians 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man …

So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

by. Heb. by the hand of. dwell

Leviticus 23:34,40-43 Speak to the children of Israel, saying…

Deuteronomy 16:13-15 You shall observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that …

Zechariah 14:16-19 And it shall come to pass…

John 7:2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.

booths

Genesis 33:17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made …

the feast (That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the month Tisri, the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, in commemoration of the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage. For other particulars see the parallel passages.)

And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

Bible Hub
Nehemiah 7
Top of Page
Top of Page