Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

General references

Bible References

Comfortably unto all

2 Chronicles 32:6
He appointed military officers to take charge of the people, who gathered them together in the square near the city gate and spoke to them encouragingly,
Isaiah 40:1
"Comfort! Yes, comfort my people," says your God.
Hosea 2:14
"Therefore, look! I will now allure her. I will make her go out to the wilderness, and will speak to her heart.

Taught

2 Chronicles 15:3
"Listen to me, Asa, Judah, and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will allow you to find him, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you. Israel lived for years without the true God, priests to teach them, and the Law,
2 Chronicles 17:9
They taught throughout Judah from a copy of the Book of the Law of the LORD that they took with them as they passed through all the cities of Judah, teaching among all the people.
2 Chronicles 35:3
He addressed the descendants of Levi who were teaching all Israel and who had consecrated themselves to the LORD, telling them:
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will teach your ordinances to Jacob, and your Law to Israel. They will offer incense as a pleasant aroma to you and a whole burnt offering upon your altar.
Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Law of the LORD, to obey it, and to teach God's statutes and judgments in Israel.
Nehemiah 8:7
Seven months later, the Israelis had settled in their own cities.
Nehemiah 9:3
While they stood there, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one fourth of the day, and they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God for another fourth of the day.
2 Timothy 4:2
to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.

The good

Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 8:6
Listen, because I have noble things to say, and what I have to say will reveal what is right.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.
Philippians 3:8
What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

And making

Deuteronomy 26:3
Approach the priest who is in charge at that time and say to him, "I acknowledge today to the LORD your God that I've arrived in the land that the LORD promised our ancestors to give us.'
Ezra 10:11
Now confess this to the LORD God of your ancestors, and separate yourselves from the nations of the land and from foreign wives."
Nehemiah 9:3
While they stood there, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one fourth of the day, and they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God for another fourth of the day.

General references

Leviticus 10:11
You are to teach the Israelis all the statutes that the LORD commanded you by the authority of Moses."
Luke 2:43
When the days of the festival were over, they left for home. The young man Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

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