Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Bible References

Stand

Jeremiah 18:15
But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, [the] ancient ways, to go [into] {bypaths}, not [one that] is built up.
Deuteronomy 32:7
Remember [the] old days, {the years long past}; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you.
Song of Songs 1:7
Tell me, [you] whom my {heart} loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? {For why should I be like} one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
Isaiah 8:20
for teaching and for testimony?" {surely they [who] speak like this have no dawn}.
Malachi 4:4
"Remember the instruction of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations.
Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.'
John 5:39
You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. {They} accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day [to see] if these [things] were so.
Romans 4:1
What then shall we say [that] Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found?
Hebrews 6:12
in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.
Hebrews 11:2
For by this the people of old were approved.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,

And walk

Jeremiah 7:23
But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'
Isaiah 2:5
House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
Isaiah 30:21
And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this [is] the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left.
John 12:35
So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
John 13:17
If you understand these [things], you are blessed if you do them.
Colossians 2:6
Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him,

We will

Jeremiah 2:25
Restrain your foot from [being] barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, '[It is] hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'
Jeremiah 18:12
But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'
Jeremiah 22:21
I spoke to you {in the times you were secure}, [and] you said, 'I will not listen!' This [was] your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.
Jeremiah 44:16
"[Concerning] the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we [are] not going to listen to you!
Matthew 21:28
"Now what do you think? A man had two sons. [He] approached the first [and] said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.'

General references

Psalm 25:4
Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness--every good course--
Jeremiah 42:3
And let Yahweh your God inform us the way in which we should go and the thing that we should do."
Luke 5:39
And no one [after] drinking old [wine] wants new, because he says, 'The old is [just] fine!'"