2 Chronicles 17:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;

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  • 2 Chr 35:3 : 3 And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,
  • 2 Chr 15:3 : 3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.
  • Deut 4:5 : 5 I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
  • Deut 33:10 : 10 They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
  • Neh 8:7-8 : 7 And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places. 8 And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.
  • Neh 8:13-14 : 13 And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law. 14 And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:
  • Neh 9:3 : 3 And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.
  • Ps 34:11 : 11 Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.
  • Ps 51:13 : 13 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
  • Eccl 1:12 : 12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
  • Eccl 12:9-9 : 9 And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings. 10 The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.
  • Isa 49:23 : 23 And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.
  • Matt 4:23 : 23 And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.
  • Mark 4:2 : 2 And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:
  • Luke 4:43-44 : 43 But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent. 44 And he was teaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.
  • Acts 1:1 : 1 I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

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