Nehemiah 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
  • Ps 19:8-9 : 8 The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. 11 By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
  • Ps 119:103-104 : 103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth! 104 Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.
  • Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
  • Ps 126:1-3 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> When the Lord made a change in Zion's fate, we were like men in a dream. 2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them. 3 The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.
  • Prov 2:10-11 : 10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; 11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
  • Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste: 14 So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 8:7-11
    5 verses
    80%

    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.

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

  • Neh 8:13
    80%

    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.

  • Neh 8:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    2 And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.

    3 He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.

  • Esth 8:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 And the Jews had light and joy and honour.

    17 And in every part of the kingdom and in every town, wherever the king's letter and his order came, the Jews were glad with great joy, and had a feast and a good day. And a great number of the people of the land became Jews: for the fear of the Jews had come on them.

  • Esth 9:22
    74%

    22 As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

  • Esth 1:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

    8 And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

  • Neh 8:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16 And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

    17 All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

    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.

  • Esth 9:17-19
    3 verses
    72%

    17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

    18 But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

    19 So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

  • Ezra 3:13
    72%

    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.

  • Neh 12:43
    72%

    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.

  • Esth 1:5
    71%

    5 And at the end of that time, the king gave a feast for all the people who were present in Shushan, the king's town, small as well as great, for seven days, in the outer square of the garden of the king's house.

  • Neh 10:28
    71%

    28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;

  • Eccl 8:15
    71%

    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • Ezra 6:22
    71%

    22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them full of joy, by turning the heart of the king of Assyria to them to give them help in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

  • Ezra 10:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

    7 And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, that they were to come together to Jerusalem;

  • Esth 2:18
    69%

    18 Then the king gave a great feast for all his captains and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he gave orders through all the divisions of his kingdom for a day of rest from work, and gave wealth from his store.

  • Ezra 7:13
    69%

    13 And now it is my order that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who are ready and have a desire to go to Jerusalem, are to go with you.

  • Neh 8:5
    69%

    5 And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:

  • 2 Chr 30:25
    69%

    25 And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.

  • Neh 12:27
    69%

    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.

  • Ezra 8:36
    69%

    36 And they gave the king's orders to the king's captains and the rulers across the river, and they gave the people and the house of God the help which was needed.

  • Eccl 9:7
    69%

    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Exod 32:6
    69%

    6 So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.

  • 2 Chr 30:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 4:20
    68%

    20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

  • Ezra 10:9
    68%

    9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.

  • Isa 22:13
    68%

    13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Gen 26:30
    68%

    30 Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

  • Ezra 6:16
    68%

    16 And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.

  • Esth 9:26
    68%

    26 So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,

  • Deut 12:7
    68%

    7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

  • 1 Chr 12:40
    68%

    40 And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

  • Esth 1:22
    68%

    22 And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.