43 Bible Verses about Reading The Scriptures

when all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this Law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

He took the book of the covenant, in which Jehovah's commandments were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said: We will obey Jehovah. We will do everything that he has commanded.

Afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursing, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

The chief priest Hilkiah told the scribe Shaphan: I found the Book of the Law in Jehovah's House. Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who then read it.

Then the scribe Shaphan told the king: The priest Hilkiah has given me a book. Shaphan read it to the king.

He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes.

The king went up to the Temple of Jehovah. All the inhabitants of Judah young and old also went to Jehovah's Temple. Josiah read everything written in the Book of the Promise found in Jehovah's Temple so they could all hear it.

When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. All the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the Water Gate. They requested Ezra the scribe that he would bring them the book of the Law of Moses that Jehovah gave to Israel. Ezra the priest brought the law to the meeting of the people. They were all able to listen to it. It was the first day of the seventh month. He read it in the wide place in front of the Water Gate from early morning till the middle of the day. Everyone who could understand it, men and women alike were able to listen to it. All the people got to hear the Book of the Law.

Day by day, from the first day till the last, he read from the book of the Law of God. They kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

They read from the book the Law of God making it clear (translating it), so that their minds were able to take it in.

For a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they read from the book of the Law of their God. For a fourth part of the day they requested forgiveness and worshipped Jehovah their God.

On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses while the people listened. They heard that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God at any time.

On a day of fasting, you must read from the scroll Jehovah's message that you wrote as I dictated. You must read it to the people in Jehovah's Temple. You must also read it to all the people of Judah when they come from their cities.

Baruch, son of Neriah, did as the prophet Jeremiah commanded him. In Jehovah's Temple he read from the scroll everything that Jehovah had said.

Then Baruch read the scroll containing the words of Jeremiah. Baruch read it to all the people in Jehovah's temple in the room of the scribe Gemariah, son of Shaphan, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of New Gate of Jehovah's Temple.

Micaiah told them everything he heard Baruch read from the scroll publicly.

They said to Baruch: Please sit down, and read it to us. So Baruch read it to them.

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll. He took the scroll from the side room of the scribe Elishama. Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials standing by the king.

As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a scribe's knife and throw them into the fire in the fireplace. He did this until the whole scroll was burned up.

Jeremiah said to Seraiah: When you come to Babylon, see that you read all this.

He was returning and sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.

Philip ran to him, heard him read the prophet Isaiah, and said: Do you understand what you are reading?

After the public reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them, saying: You men and brothers if you have a message of encouragement for the people speak.

This Book of the Law will not depart out of your mouth. You must meditate (intensely study) (think deeply) on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Moses has been preached in the synagogues from old times until now every Sabbath day.

The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

Happy is he who reads, and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and obey the things written in it: for the time is near.

Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

Then he returned to Nazareth the place where he was raised. He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day. This was his custom. There he stood up to read.

Jehovah answered me: Write the vision. Record it on tablets that he who reads it may run.

He replied to them: Have you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?

Have you read the law that on the Sabbath day the priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?

Jesus said to them: Have you read the Scriptures, 'The stone the builders rejected has been made the chief cornerstone of the building. This was Jehovah's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.' (Isaiah 28:16)

Concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you read that which was spoken to you by God?

He said: Do you not know of what David did when he needed food for himself and his companions?

Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected was made the chief corner stone.' (Psalm 118:22, 23)

Jesus answered: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry. He and his companions,

Have you any idea what these people are saying? Jesus answered: Yes. It is written, 'From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete.'

It is a fact that the dead will be raised again. Have you not read the account of the burning bush in the book of Moses? Did you notice how God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

He said: What is written in the law? How do you read it?

Their minds were blinded. Until this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It is not revealed to them that Christ voided it.

But to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their heart.