Nehemiah 8:11

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the Leuites made silence throughout all the people, saying, Holde your peace: for the day is holy, be not sad therefore.

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  • Num 13:30 : 30 (13:31) Then Caleb stilled the people before Moses, & saide, Let vs go vp at once, and possesse it: for vndoubtedly we shall ouercome it.

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  • Neh 8:7-10
    4 verses
    77%

    7Also Ieshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Iamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Leuites caused the people to vnderstand the lawe, and the people stood in their place.

    8And they read in the booke of the Lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, & caused them to vnderstand the reading.

    9Then Nehemiah (which is Tirshatha) and Ezra the Priest and scribe, and the Leuites that instructed the people, saide vnto all the people, This day is holie vnto ye Lord your God: mourne not, neither weepe: for all the people wept, whe they heard the words of the Lawe.

    10He saide also vnto the, Go, and eate of the fat, & drinke the sweete, & send part vnto them, for whome none is prepared: for this day is holie vnto our Lorde: be ye not sorie therefore: for the ioy of the Lord is your strength.

  • Neh 8:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12Then all the people went to eate and to drinke, and to send away part, and to make great ioy, because they had vnderstand the wordes that they had taught them.

    13And on the second day the chiefe fathers of all the people, the Priests and the Leuites were gathered vnto Ezra the scribe, that he also might instruct them in the wordes of the Lawe.

  • Zeph 1:7
    73%

    7Be stil at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, and hath sanctified his ghests.

  • Ezra 3:13
    70%

    13So that the people coulde not discerne the sound of the shoute for ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude crie, & the noyse was heard farre off.

  • Deut 27:14
    69%

    14And the Leuites shal answere and say vnto all the men of Israel with a loude voyce,

  • Num 29:35
    69%

    35In the eight day, yee shall haue a solemne assemblie: yee shall doe no seruile worke therein,

  • Hab 2:20
    69%

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

  • Hos 9:5
    69%

    5What wil ye do then in the solemne day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Josh 6:10
    69%

    10(Nowe Ioshua had commaunded the people, saying, Ye shall nor shout, neither make any noyse with your voyce, neither shall a worde proceede out of your mouth, vntill the day that I say vnto you, Shout, then shall ye shoute)

  • 2 Chr 30:21-23
    3 verses
    69%

    21And the children of Israel that were present at Ierusalem, kept the feast of the vnleauened bread seuen dayes with great ioye, and the Leuites, and the Priestes praysed the Lorde, day by day, singing with loude instruments vnto the Lorde.

    22And Hezekiah spake comfortably vnto all the Leuites that had good knowledge to sing vnto the Lorde: and they did eate in that feast seuen dayes, and offred peace offrings, and praysed the Lord God of their fathers.

    23And the whole assembly tooke counsel to keepe it other seuen dayes. So they kept it seuen dayes with ioy.

  • 2 Kgs 18:36
    69%

    36But the people helde their peace, and answered not him a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere ye him not.

  • Zech 2:13
    68%

    13Let all flesh be still before the Lord: for he is raised vp out of his holy place.

  • Num 18:5
    68%

    5Therefore shall ye keepe the charge of the Sanctuarie, and the charge of the altar: so there shall fall no more wrath vpon the children of Israel.

  • Num 29:12
    68%

    12And in the fifteenth day of the seuenth moneth ye shall haue an holie conuocation: ye shall do no seruile worke therein, but yee shall keepe a feast vnto the Lord seuen daies.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
    68%

    5And said vnto them, Heare me, ye Leuites: sanctifie nowe your selues, and sanctifie the house of the Lorde God of your fathers, and cary forth the filthinesse out of the Sanctuarie.

  • 2 Chr 30:27
    68%

    27Then the Priests and the Leuites arose, and blessed the people, and their voyce was heard, and their prayer came vp vnto heauen, to his holy habitation.

  • Num 28:25
    68%

    25And in ye seuenth day ye shal haue an holy conuocation, wherein ye shal do no seruile work.

  • Neh 12:27
    68%

    27And in the dedication of the wall at Ierusalem they sought the Leuites out of all their places to bring them to Ierusalem to keepe the dedication and gladnes, both with thanksgiuings & with songs, cymbales, violes and with harpes.

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    68%

    4He commanded also the people that dwelt in Ierusalem, to giue a part to the Priestes, and Leuites, that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord.

  • Lev 23:28
    68%

    28And ye shall doe no worke that same day: for it is a day of reconciliation, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

  • Job 13:5
    68%

    5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!

  • Neh 8:18
    68%

    18And he read in the booke of the Lawe of God euery day, from the first day vnto the last day; they kept the feast seuen dayes, and on the eight day a solemne assemblie, according vnto the maner.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    67%

    6But let none come into the house of the Lord, saue the Priests, & the Leuites that minister: they shal go in, for they are holy: but all the people shal keepe the watch of the Lord.

  • Neh 12:43-44
    2 verses
    67%

    43And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off.

    44Also at the same time were men appointed ouer the chambers of the store for the offerings (for the first fruites, and for the tithes) to gather into them out of the fieldes of the cities, the portions of the Law for the Priests and the Leuites: for Iudah reioyced for the Priests and for the Leuites, that serued.

  • Neh 12:47
    67%

    47And in the dayes of Zerubbabel, & in the dayes of Nehemiah did al Israel giue portions vnto the singers and porters, euerie day his portion, and they gaue the holy things vnto the Leuites, and the Leuites gaue the holy things vnto the sonnes of Aaron.

  • Isa 14:7
    67%

    7The whole worlde is at rest and is quiet: they sing for ioye.

  • Job 29:10
    67%

    10The voyce of princes was hidde, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth.

  • Lev 10:3
    67%

    3Then Moses sayde vnto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will bee sanctified in the that come neere me, & before all the people I will be glorified: but Aaron held his peace.

  • Lev 23:35
    67%

    35In the first day shalbe an holie conuocation: ye shall do no seruile worke therein.

  • Neh 8:1
    67%

    1And all the people assembled themselues together, in the streete that was before the watergate, and they spake vnto Ezra the Scribe, that hee would bring the booke of ye Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.

  • Lev 23:7
    67%

    7In the first day yee shall haue an holy conuocation: ye shal do no seruile worke therein.

  • Num 28:18
    67%

    18In the first day shalbe an holy conuocation, ye shall do no seruile worke therein.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    67%

    11And when the Priestes were come out of the Sanctuarie (for all the Priests that were present, were sanctified & did not waite by course.

  • Jer 16:9
    67%

    9For thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Beholde, I wil cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, euen in your dayes the voyce of myrth, and the voyce of gladnes, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride.

  • Lev 8:34
    67%

    34As hee hath done this day: so the Lorde hath commanded to doe, to make an atonement for you.

  • Neh 9:5
    67%

    5And the Leuites said, euen Ieshua and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodiiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, Stande vp, and praise the Lorde your God for euer, and euer, and let them praise thy glorious Name, O God, which excelleth aboue all thankesgiuing and praise.

  • Isa 24:8
    67%

    8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.

  • Deut 27:9
    67%

    9And Moses & the Priestes of the Leuites spake vnto all Israel, saying, Take heede & heare, O Israel: this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.

  • Exod 14:14
    67%

    14The Lorde shall fight for you: therefore hold you your peace.

  • Ezra 8:28
    67%

    28And I said vnto them, Ye are consecrate vnto the Lord, and the vessels are consecrate, and the gold and the siluer are freely offred vnto the Lord God of your fathers.

  • Num 1:53
    67%

    53But the Leuites shall pitch rounde about the Tabernacle of the Testimonie, least vengeance come vpon the Congregation of the children of Israel, and the Leuites shall take the charge of the Tabernacle of the Testimonie.

  • Isa 36:21
    67%

    21Then they kept silence, and answered him not a worde: for the Kings commandement was, saying, Answere him not.