Nehemiah 8:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

all the people gathered together  at the square in front of the Water Gate.  They asked the scribe Ezra  to bring the book of the law of Moses  that the Lord had given to Israel.

Cross References

Ezra 7:6

#– #came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses,  which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested  because the hand of the Lord his God was on him.

Nehemiah 3:26

and the temple servants  living on Ophel  made repairs opposite the Water Gate  towards the east and the tower that juts out.

2 Chronicles 34:15

Consequently,  Hilkiah told the court secretary Shaphan, ‘I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s temple,’ and he gave the book to Shaphan.

Ezra 7:11

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:

Matthew 23:34

This is why I am sending you prophets,   wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues   and pursue from town to town.

Matthew 23:13

‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,

Matthew 23:2

‘The scribes and the Pharisees are seated in the chair of Moses.

Matthew 13:52

‘Therefore,’ he said to them, ‘every teacher of the law   who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom treasures new and old.’

Malachi 4:4

‘Remember the instruction of Moses my servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb  for all Israel.

Isaiah 8:20

Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Nehemiah 12:37

At the Fountain Gate  they climbed the steps of the city of David  on the ascent of the wall and went above the house of David to the Water Gate  on the east.

Nehemiah 8:16

The people went out, brought back branches, and made shelters for themselves on each of their rooftops  and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate,  and the square by the Ephraim Gate.

Judges 20:8

Then all the people stood united and said, ‘None of us will go to his tent or return to his house.

Judges 20:1

All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba  and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 34:30

The king went up to the Lord’s temple with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites #– #all the people from the oldest to the youngest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the Lord’s temple.

Ezra 7:10

Now Ezra had determined in his heart to study the law of the Lord, obey it, and teach  its statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate,  he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively  to the book of the law.

Leviticus 9:5

They brought what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole community came forward and stood before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 31:11

when all Israel assembles in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he chooses,  you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.

2 Kings 23:2

Then the king went to the Lord’s temple with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets #– #all the people from the youngest to the oldest. He read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant  that had been found in the Lord’s temple.

Ezra 7:1

After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes  of Persia, Ezra – Seraiah’s   son, Azariah’s son, Hilkiah’s   son,

Nehemiah 12:26

These served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor  and Ezra the priest and scribe.