Nehemiah 8:8

Tree of Life Version

They read from the Torah scroll of God, distinctly explaining it and giving insight. Thus they understood what was read.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:2

The king went up to the House of Adonai and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him—the kohanim and the prophets, all the people, young and old—and he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which was found in the House of Adonai.

Ezra 4:18

“The letter that you sent to us has been translated and read in my presence.

Nehemiah 8:12

So all the people departed to eat and drink, to send portions and to celebrate with great joy, because they came to understand the words that were explained to them.

Nehemiah 8:7

The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbetai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Torah while the people were standing in their place.

Nehemiah 8:9

Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the kohen-scribe, and the Levites who were teaching the people said to all the people, “Today is kadosh to Adonai your God. Do not mourn or weep!” For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the Torah.

Nehemiah 9:3

They stood in their place and read in the scroll of the Torah of Adonai their God for a quarter of the day; and for another quarter they were confessing and prostrating themselves before Adonai their God.

Ezekiel 46:10

When they enter, the prince will come in among them. When they go out, they will go out together.

Habakkuk 2:2

Then Adonai answered me and said: “Write down the vision, make it plain on the tablets, so that the reader may run with it.

Luke 24:27

Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them the things written about Himself in all the Scriptures.

Luke 24:32

They said to one another, “Didn’t our heart burn within us while He was speaking with us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

Luke 24:45

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

Acts 28:23

They set a day to meet Paul and came to him at his quarters in large numbers. From morning until evening he was explaining everything to them, testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them about Yeshua from both the Torah of Moses and the Prophets.