Ezra 7:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

Prepared

Psalm 57:7

To do it

Revelation 22:14

And to teach

Bible References

Prepared

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.

To do it

And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.

And to teach

And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.

They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.

And with them, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and Elishama and Jehoram the priests.

And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.

And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching: