Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

Bible References

All the people

Romans 3:20
Wherefore by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before God: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 7:9
For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.
2 Corinthians 7:9
Now I rejoice, not that ye have been made sorrowful, but that ye have sorrowed unto repentance; for ye have been made sorry in a godly manner, that ye might receive damage from us in nothing.