Nehemiah 8:9

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Nechemyah, who was the governor, and Ezra the Kohen the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the LORD your God; don't mourn, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Cross References

2 Kings 22:11

It happened, when the king had heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, that he tore his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.

2 Chronicles 15:3

Now for a long season Yisra'el was without the true God, and without a teaching Kohen, and without law:

2 Chronicles 30:22

Chizkiyahu spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of the LORD. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of shalom offerings, and making confession to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:19

It happened, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he tore his clothes.

2 Chronicles 34:21

Go you, inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Yisra'el and in Yehudah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.

2 Chronicles 35:3

He said to the Levites who taught all Yisra'el, who were holy to the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Shlomo the son of David king of Yisra'el did build; there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve the LORD your God, and his people Yisra'el.

Ezra 2:63

The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a Kohen with Urim and with Tummim.

Ezra 7:11

Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artachshasta gave to Ezra the Kohen, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the mitzvot of the LORD, and of his statutes to Yisra'el:

Nehemiah 10:1

Now those who sealed were: Nechemyah the governor, the son of Chakhalyah, and Tzidkiyahu,

Nehemiah 12:26

These were in the days of Yoiakim the son of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and in the days of Nechemyah the governor, and of Ezra the Kohen the scribe.

Nehemiah 7:65

The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a Kohen with Urim and Tummim.

Nehemiah 7:70

Some from among the heads of fathers' [houses] gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred thirty Kohanim' garments.

Nehemiah 8:2

Ezra the Kohen brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

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 those who mourn in Tziyon, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no Kohen to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

Leviticus 23:24

*Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Malachi 2:13

This again you do: you cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:9

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the mitzvah came, sin revived, and I died.

Deuteronomy 12:12

You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your male servants, and your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

Deuteronomy 12:7

and there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16:11

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

Deuteronomy 26:14

I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away of it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead: I have listened to the voice of the LORD my God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

James 4:9

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.