Nehemiah 8:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.

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  • Num 13:30 : 30 Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

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  • Neh 8:7-10
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    77%

    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.

    9 And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.

    10 Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

  • Neh 8:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12 And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

    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.

  • Zeph 1:7
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    7 Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

  • Ezra 3:13
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    13 So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

  • Deut 27:14
    69%

    14 Then the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the men of Israel,

  • Num 29:35
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    35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Hab 2:20
    69%

    20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

  • Hos 9:5
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    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Josh 6:10
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    10 And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.

  • 2 Chr 30:21-23
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    69%

    21 So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.

    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.

    23 And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
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    36 But the people kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.

  • Zech 2:13
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    13 For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.

  • Num 18:5
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    5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

  • Num 29:12
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    12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

  • 2 Chr 29:5
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    5 And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.

  • 2 Chr 30:27
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    27 Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.

  • Num 28:25
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    25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Neh 12:27
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    27 And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
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    4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

  • Lev 23:28
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    28 And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

  • Job 13:5
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    5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

  • Neh 8:18
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    18 And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    67%

    6 But let no one come into the house of the Lord but only the priests and those of the Levites who have work to do there; they may go in for they are holy; but the rest of the people are to keep the orders of the Lord.

  • Neh 12:43-44
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    67%

    43 And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.

    44 And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

  • Neh 12:47
    67%

    47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave what was needed by the music-makers and the door-keepers day by day: and they made the offerings holy for the Levites; and the Levites did the same for the sons of Aaron.

  • Isa 14:7
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    7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.

  • Job 29:10
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    10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

  • Lev 10:3
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    3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

  • Lev 23:35
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    35 On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

  • Neh 8:1
    67%

    1 And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

  • Lev 23:7
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    7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

  • Num 28:18
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    18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

  • 2 Chr 5:11
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    11 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

  • Jer 16:9
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    9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

  • Lev 8:34
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    34 What has been done this day, has been ordered by the Lord to take away your sin.

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    5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.

  • Isa 24:8
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    8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

  • Deut 27:9
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    9 Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God.

  • Exod 14:14
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    14 The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

  • Ezra 8:28
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    28 And I said to them, You are holy to the Lord and the vessels are holy: and the silver and the gold are an offering freely given to the Lord, the God of your fathers.

  • Num 1:53
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    53 But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

  • Isa 36:21
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    21 But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.