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.

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Bible References

Comfortably unto all

2 Chronicles 32:6
He appointed military officers over the army and assembled them in the square at the city gate. He encouraged them, saying,
Isaiah 40:1
"Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.
Hosea 2:14
However, in the future I will allure her; I will lead her back into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Taught

2 Chronicles 15:3
For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.
2 Chronicles 17:9
They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the Lord. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.
2 Chronicles 35:3
He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the Lord, "Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don't carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel!
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.
Ezra 7:10
Now Ezra had dedicated himself to the study of the law of the Lord, to its observance, and to teaching its statutes and judgments in Israel.
Nehemiah 8:7
Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah -- all of whom were Levites -- were teaching the people the law, as the people remained standing.
Nehemiah 9:3
For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.
2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the message, be ready whether it is convenient or not, reprove, rebuke, exhort with complete patience and instruction.

The good

Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 8:6
Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
John 17:3
Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said "Let light shine out of darkness," is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
Philippians 3:8
More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things -- indeed, I regard them as dung! -- that I may gain Christ,

And making

Deuteronomy 26:3
You must go to the priest in office at that time and say to him, "I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land that the Lord promised to our ancestors to give us."
Ezra 10:11
Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives."
Nehemiah 9:3
For one-fourth of the day they stood in their place and read from the book of the law of the LORD their God, and for another fourth they were confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.

General references

Leviticus 10:11
and to teach the Israelites all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them through Moses."
Luke 2:43
But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

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