16 Bible Verses about Reading Other Matter

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

And when they had read it, they rejoiced for the consolation.

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren.

Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.

And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.

For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.