16 Bible Verses about Reading Other Matter

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

And having read it, they rejoiced at the consolation.

And when the letter has been read among you, cause that it be read also in the assembly of Laodiceans, and that ye also read that from Laodicea.

I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy 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 magicians, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing.

The king cried aloud to bring in the magicians, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew 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; yet will I read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

But I have heard of thee, that thou canst give interpretations, and solve problems. 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 many of the Jews read, for the place of the city where Jesus was crucified was near; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin.

For we do not write other things to you but what ye well know and recognise; and I hope that ye will recognise to the end,

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

On that night sleep fled from the king. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

The letter that ye sent to us has been read before me distinctly.

As soon as the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them cease by force and power.

And they give the book to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot read.