Scribes

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Judges 5:14 OT

  Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.

• Ezekiel 9:2 OT

  Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and…

• Ezekiel 9:3 OT

  The glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

• 1 Chronicles 2:55 OT

  The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

• 1 Chronicles 24:6 OT

  Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the…

• 2 Chronicles 34:13 OT

  Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

• 1 Chronicles 27:32 OT

  Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe. Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.

• Ezra 7:6 OT

  this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

• Psalms 45:1 OT

  My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

• 2 Samuel 8:17 OT

  Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, Seraiah was scribe,

• 2 Samuel 20:25 OT

  Sheva was scribe, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests,

• 2 Kings 12:10 OT

  When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put it in bags and counted the money that was found in Yahweh’s house.

• Esther 3:12 OT

  Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of…

• Jeremiah 36:5 OT

  Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

• Jeremiah 36:26 OT

  The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

• Jeremiah 32:11 OT

  So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;

• Jeremiah 32:12 OT

  and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in…

• Nehemiah 8:2-6 OT

  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. He read from it before the wide place that was in front of the water gate from early…

• 2 Kings 25:19 OT

  and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men…

• 2 Chronicles 26:11 OT

  Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

• Jeremiah 52:25 OT

  and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty…

• Mark 12:28 NT

  One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”

• Matthew 22:35 NT

  One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

• Mark 12:38 NT

  In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,