Nehemiah 8:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Forsooth Nehemiah said, he is the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and writer, and the deacons [or Levites], expounding to all the people, This is a day hallowed to the Lord our God; do not ye mourn, and do not ye weep. For all the people wept, when it heard the words of the law.

Cross References

2 Kings 22:11

and the king had heard the words of the book of the law of the Lord, he rent his clothes.

2 Kings 22:19

and thine heart was afeared, and thou were made meek before the Lord, when his words were heard against this place, and against the dwellers thereof, that is, that they should be made into wondering, and into cursing, and thou rentest thy clothes, and weptest before me, and I heard, saith the Lord;

2 Chronicles 15:3

Forsooth many days shall pass in Israel without very God, and without priest, and without teacher, and without law.

2 Chronicles 30:22

And Hezekiah spake to the heart of all the deacons [or Levites], that had good understanding of the Lord; and they ate by seven days of the solemnity, offering sacrifices of peace-able things, and praising the Lord God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:19

and when the king had heard the words of the law, he rent his clothes;

2 Chronicles 34:21

Go ye, and pray the Lord for me, and for the remnant of men of Israel and of Judah, on all the words of this book, that is found. For great venge-ance of the Lord hath dropped upon us, for our fathers kept not the words of the Lord, to do all things that be written in this book.

2 Chronicles 35:3

And he spake to the deacons [or Levites], at whose teaching all Israel was hallowed to the Lord, Set ye [or Putteth] the ark of the Lord in the saintuary of the temple, that Solomon, king of Israel, the son of David builded; for ye shall no more bear it about. But now serve ye the Lord your God, and his people Israel,

Ezra 2:63

And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy of holy things, till a wise priest and a perfect man rose up.

Ezra 7:11

Soothly this is the exemplar of the epistle of the commandment, which the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, priest, writer learned in the words and commandments of the Lord, and in his ceremonies in Israel.

Nehemiah 10:1

And the sealers were Nehemiah, that is, the Tirshatha, or the governor, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

Nehemiah 12:26

These men were serving in the days of Joiakim, the son of Joshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah, the duke, and of Ezra, the priest and writer.

Nehemiah 7:65

And the Tirshatha said to them, that they should not eat of the holy things of holy men, till that a wise priest rose up among the people.

Nehemiah 7:70

Soothly some of the princes of the meines gave costs into the work of God; the Tirshatha gave into the treasure [or treasury], a thousand drachmas/drams of gold, fifty vials, or basins, five hundred and thirty coats of priests.

Nehemiah 8:2

Therefore Ezra, the priest, brought the law before the multitude of men and of women, and before all that might understand, in the first day of the seventh month.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

Time to weep, and time to laugh; time to bewail, and time to dance.

Isaiah 61:3

that I should set comfort to the mourners of Zion, and that I should give to them a crown for ashes, oil of joy for mourning, a mantle of praising for the spirit of wailing. And strong men of rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall be called therein, the planting of the Lord, for to glorify.

Hosea 4:6

My people was still, for it had not knowing; for thou hast put away knowing, I shall put thee away, that thou use not priesthood to me; and for thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, also I shall forget thy sons.

Leviticus 23:24

Speak thou to the sons of Israel, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be [a] sabbath, a memorial to you, sounding with trumps, and it shall be called holy;

Malachi 2:13

And again ye did this thing; ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, with weeping, and wailing; so that I behold no more to sacrifice, neither receive anything pleasant of your hand.

Romans 3:20

For of the works of the law each flesh shall not be justified before him; for by the law there is knowing of sin.

Romans 7:9

And I lived without the law sometime; but when the commandment was come [or had come], sin lived again. But I was dead,

Deuteronomy 12:12

There ye shall eat before your Lord God, ye, and your sons, and daughters, your menservants, and womenservants, and the deacons [or Levites], that dwell in your cities; for they have none other part and possession among you.

Deuteronomy 12:7

And ye and your houses shall eat there in the sight of your Lord God; and ye shall be glad in all things to which ye put the hand, in which your Lord God hath blessed you.

Deuteronomy 16:11

And thou shalt eat before thy Lord God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thine handmaid, and the deacon or Levite that is within thy gates, and the comeling, and the fatherless, either motherless child, and the widow, that dwell with you, in the place which thy Lord God choose, that his name dwell there.

Deuteronomy 26:14

I ate not of those things in my mourning, neither I separated them in any uncleanness, neither I spended of those [or them] anything in burying of a dead body. I obeyed to the voice of my Lord God, and I did all things as thou commandedest to me.

James 4:9

Be ye wretches, and wail ye [or weep ye]; your laughing be turned into weeping, and [your] joy into sorrow of heart.