"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused {them} to understand the reading." — Nehemiah 8:8

Nehemiah 8:8 · KJV

“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused {them} to understand the reading.”

— Nehemiah 8:8

Verse 7

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people {stood} in their place.

Verse 9

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. {the Tirshatha: or, the governor}

Nehemiah 8 — Context

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with {their} faces to the ground.

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused {them} to understand the reading.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for {this} day {is} holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

Cross References

Luke 24:45

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,

Acts 28:23

And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into {his} lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and {out of} the prophets, from morning till evening.

Luke 24:27

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Acts 8:30-35

And Philip ran thither to {him}, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

Habakkuk 2:2

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make {it} plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Luke 24:32

And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?

Acts 17:2-3

And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

Matthew 5:21-22

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: {by: or, to}