THEOSISEzra 7:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For Esdras had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do and to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment.
כִּ֤י עֶזְרָא֙ הֵכִ֣ין לְבָב֔וֹ לִדְר֛וֹשׁ אֶת־תּוֹרַ֥ת יְהוָ֖ה וְלַעֲשֹׂ֑ת וּלְלַמֵּ֥ד בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל חֹ֥ק וּמִשְׁפָּֽט׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Tim 4:2Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
- Matt 7:24Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,
- Mal 2:7For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.
- John 13:17If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them.
- Ps 1:2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.
- Ezra 7:25And thou Esdras according to the wisdom of thy God, which is in thy hand, appoint judges and magistrates, that may judge all the people, that is beyond the river, that is, for them who know the law of thy God, yea and the ignorant teach ye freely.
- Ps 19 (18):7
- Deut 33:10Thy judgments, O Jacob, and thy law, O Israel: they shall put incense in thy wrath and holocaust upon thy altar.