Verse 10

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 33:10 : 10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.
  • Ezra 7:25 : 25 You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn't know them.
  • Ps 10:17 : 17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • John 13:17 : 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
  • Ps 119:96-99 : 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM 97 How I love your law! It is my meditation all day. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ps 19:7 : 7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
  • Ps 1:2 : 2 but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night.
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 He did that which was evil, because he didn't set his heart to seek Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 17:8-9 : 8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. 9 They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
  • Ezra 7:6 : 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
  • Deut 16:12 : 12 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
  • Neh 8:1-9 : 1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. 2 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. 3 He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law. 4 Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam. 5 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: 6 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, "Amen, Amen," with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground. 7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people [stood] in their place. 8 They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. 9 Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, "This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Don't mourn, nor weep." For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
  • Job 11:13 : 13 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
  • Ps 57:7 : 7 My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Titus 2:1 : 1 But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
  • Titus 2:15 : 15 Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
  • Acts 1:1 : 1 The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  • Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.