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Nehemiah 7:70
Some of the family leaders gave to the project. The governor gave 1,000 gold coins, 50 bowls, and 530 priestly garments to the treasury.
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Nehemiah 7:65
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
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Nehemiah 8:2
On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men, women, and all who could listen with understanding.
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Deuteronomy 12:7
You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the Lord your God has blessed you.
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Deuteronomy 12:12
You will rejoice before the Lord your God— you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
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Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance;
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Nehemiah 10:1
Those whose seals were on the document were: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,
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Deuteronomy 16:14-15
Rejoice during your festival— you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place He chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.
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Leviticus 23:24
“ Tell the Israelites: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and joyful shouting— a sacred assembly.
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Deuteronomy 16:11
Rejoice before Yahweh your God in the place where He chooses to have His name dwell— you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow among you.
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Ezra 2:63
The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
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Numbers 29:1-6
“ You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of joyful shouting for you.Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old— all unblemished—with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram,and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs.Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.
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Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
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Ezra 7:11
This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:
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Isaiah 61:3
to provide for those who mourn in Zion; to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, festive oil instead of mourning, and splendid clothes instead of despair. And they will be called righteous trees, planted by the Lord to glorify Him.
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Deuteronomy 26:14
I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the Lord my God; I have done all You commanded me.
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2 Chronicles 35 3
He said to the Levites who taught all Israel the holy things of the Lord,“ Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. Since you do not have to carry it on your shoulders, now serve Yahweh your God and His people Israel.
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Nehemiah 8:7-8
Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, who were Levites, explained the law to the people as they stood in their places.They read out of the book of the law of God, translating and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was read.
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2 Chronicles 30 22
Then Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the Lord. They ate at the appointed festival for seven days, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.
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2 Kings 22 19
because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I Myself have heard you— this is the Lord’s declaration—
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2 Corinthians 7 9-2 Corinthians 7 11
Now I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because your grief led to repentance. For you were grieved as God willed, so that you didn’t experience any loss from us.For godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death.For consider how much diligence this very thing— this grieving as God wills— has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.
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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.
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Nehemiah 12:26
These served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.
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2 Kings 22 11
When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.
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Romans 3:20
For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.
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2 Chronicles 15 3
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without instruction,
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Malachi 2:13
And this is another thing you do: you cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.
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2 Chronicles 34 19
When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.
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2 Chronicles 34 21
“ Go. Ask Yahweh for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book that was found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord in order to do everything written in this book.”