Lectionary Calendar

Friday, August 15th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19

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- Nave's Topical Bible - Beneficence; Feasts; Joy; Law; Levites; Repentance; Trumpets; Thompson Chain Reference - Hold Your Peace; Silence; Silence-Speech;

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ezra; Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood; Sanctification; Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching; Easton Bible Dictionary - Festivals, Religious; Tabernacles, Feast of; Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of; Meals; Priest; Scribes; Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites; Nehemiah; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament; Ezra; Ezra, Book of; Malachi; Synagogue; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Mary; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ezra ; Scribes; People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra; Feasts; Sabbath; Smith Bible Dictionary - Festivals; Sabbath;

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Trumpets, Feast of; The Jewish Encyclopedia - Law, Reading from the;

stilled: Numbers 13:30

Reciprocal: Esther 2:18 - gave gifts

So the Levites stilled all the people,.... Made them quiet and easy, being backed by the governor:

saying, hold your peace; refrain from weeping and mourning:

for the day is holy; a festival, set apart for joy and gladness:

neither be ye grieved; inwardly; as they were not to show any signs of sorrow outwardly, so they were not to cherish grief inwardly.

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)