Deuteronomy 4:10
10how on athe day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, b‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, cso that they may learn to fear dme all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’Deuteronomy 31:12-13
12 eAssemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law, 13and that their children, fwho have not known it, gmay hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, has long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”2 Chronicles 23:16
Jehoiada’s Reforms
16And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the Lord’s people.2 Chronicles 34:29-32
29 iThen the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord. 31And the king jstood in his place kand made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. 32Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.Nehemiah 8:2
2So Ezra the priest lbrought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, mon the first day of the seventh month.Nehemiah 9:1-2
The People of Israel Confess Their Sin
1Now on the twenty-fourth day of nthis month the people of Israel were assembled owith fasting pand in sackcloth, qand with earth on their heads. 2 rAnd the Israelites ▼▼Hebrew the offspring of Israel
separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. Nehemiah 9:38
38 ▼▼Ch 10:1 in Hebrew
“Because of all this uwe make a firm covenant in writing; on vthe sealed document are the names of ▼▼Hebrew lacks the names of
our princes, our Levites, and our priests. Nehemiah 10:28
The Obligations of the Covenant
28 x“The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, yand all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
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