Nehemiah 8:1

Modern English Version

All the people gathered together as one man in the area in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:2

The king went up to the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great. He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 34:15

Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.

2 Chronicles 34:30

Then the king went up to the house of the Lord with men from Judah and those living in Jerusalem, even the priests and Levites and all the people from the greatest to the least, and he read within their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

Ezra 7:1

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Ezra 7:10

Because Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, he was doing so and teaching the statutes and judgments in Israel.

Ezra 7:11

Now this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, who was likewise the scribe, the one responsible for the words of the commandments of the Lord and His statutes to Israel:

Ezra 7:6

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, given by the Lord God of Israel. Because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him, the king granted him all his requests.

Nehemiah 12:26

These leaders served during the days of Joiakim the son of Joshua, the son of Jozadak, during the days of Nehemiah the governor, and during the days of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

Nehemiah 12:37

At the Fountain Gate, directly across from them, they ascended the steps of the City of David, following that sloped section of the wall up to the house of David, then eastward to the Water Gate.

Nehemiah 3:26

The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs from opposite the Water Gate eastward to the protruding tower.

Nehemiah 8:16

So the people went out and brought back branches and made themselves booths, each on the roof of his house, and in their yard, on the grounds of the house of God, in the area in front of the Water Gate, and in the square of the Gate of Ephraim.

Nehemiah 8:3

In the area in front of the Water Gate, he read aloud from sunrise until midday to the men, women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Leviticus 9:5

They brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting, and the entire congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

Malachi 4:4

Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, the statutes and judgments which I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Matthew 13:52

Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who is discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is master of the household who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:2

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

Deuteronomy 31:11

when all Israel has come to appear before the Lord your God in the place which He will choose, you must read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Judges 20:1

All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba, and also from the land of Gilead, went out and gathered together in an assembly as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:8

All the people arose as one man and said, “Not a man among us will go to his tent, and no one will turn aside to his house.