Nehemiah 8:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

As one man

Judges 20:1

Before

Nehemiah 8:16

Nehemiah 3:26

Nehemiah 12:37

Ezra

Matthew 23:2

Bring

2 Chronicles 34:15

Isaiah 8:20

Malachi 4:4

General references

Leviticus 8:3

Bible References

As one man

Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, came out, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.

Before

So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs as far as the front of the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

Ezra

Ezra the scribe stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam on his left hand.

This Ezra went up from Babylon, and he was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which the Lord God of Israel had given; and the king granted him all he requested because the hand of the Lord his God was upon him.

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses;

Bring

Hilkiah responded and 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.

To the

law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

“

Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

General references

and assemble all the congregation at the doorway of the tent of meeting.”