Nehemiah 9:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Camest

Spakest

Gavest

True laws

Psalm 119:160

General references

Leviticus 10:11

Deuteronomy 4:36

Mark 2:27

Bible References

Camest

and have been prepared for the third day; for on the third day doth Jehovah come down before the eyes of all the people, on mount Sinai.

and he saith: -- 'Jehovah from Sinai hath come, And hath risen from Seir for them; He hath shone from mount Paran, And hath come with myriads of holy ones; At His right hand are springs for them.

Didst Thou not rend the heavens? Thou didst come down, From thy presence did mountains flow,

God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth.

Spakest

'And God speaketh all these words, saying,

The day when thou hast stood before Jehovah thy God in Horeb -- in Jehovah's saying unto me, Assemble to Me the people, and I cause them to hear My words, so that they learn to fear Me all the days that they are alive on the ground, and their sons they teach; --

Face to face hath Jehovah spoken with you, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

Gavest

and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

'And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold -- even fine gold.

And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.

so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

True laws

The sum of Thy word is truth, And to the age is every judgment of Thy righteousness!

General references

and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

'From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.

And he said to them, 'The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,