Shaphan
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 31:9-13
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Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the LORD's covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.
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Moses commanded them, "At the end of [every] seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Booths,
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when all Israel assembles in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel.
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Gather the people-- men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates-- so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law.
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Then their children who do not know [the law] will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_14 34:18
Then Shaphan the court secretary told the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave me a book," and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 8:1-7
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When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people gathered together at the square in front of the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses that the LORD had given Israel.
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On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men, women, and all who could listen with understanding.
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While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate, he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively to the book of the law.
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Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform made for this purpose. Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah stood beside him on his right; to his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
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Ezra opened the book in full view of all the people, since he was elevated above everyone. As he opened it, all the people stood up.
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Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted all the people said, " Amen, Amen!" Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
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Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, who were Levites, explained the law to the people as they stood in their places.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 8:14-7
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 8:15-7
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 8:18-7
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_16 13:1
At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 36:6
so you must go and read from the scroll-- which you wrote at my dictation-- the words of the LORD in the hearing of the people at the temple of the LORD on a day of fasting. You must also read them in the hearing of all the Judeans who are coming from their cities.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 36:15
They said to him, "Sit down and read [it] in our hearing." So Baruch read [it] in their hearing.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 36:21
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi then read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing by the king.
the king
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_5 17:18-20
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When he is seated on his royal throne, he is to write a copy of this instruction for himself on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
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It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.
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Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years over Israel.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 13:18
Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 22:1
This is what the LORD says: "Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_24 22:2
You are to say: Hear the word of the LORD, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David-- you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates.