75 Bible Verses About Biblical Interpretation

Bible verses about Biblical Interpretation

Embark on a journey of understanding, guided by the very Word that illuminates our path. Biblical interpretation is not merely an academic exercise, but a spiritual discipline, a sacred quest to draw closer to the heart of God. Through scripture, we discover the principles and wisdom necessary to unlock the treasures hidden within its pages. Let the Bible interpret the Bible, allowing the Holy Spirit to be your guide, revealing deeper truths and enriching your faith. With humility and prayer, approach each verse, seeking discernment and allowing God's light to shine upon your understanding. Embrace the challenge, knowing that the rewards are immeasurable – a profound connection with the divine and a life transformed by His unwavering truth.

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Deuteronomy 32:8 (KJV)

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:16KJV

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2KJV

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Isaiah 55:11KJV

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

Deuteronomy 6:20KJV

And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

Numbers 26:62KJV

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

Deuteronomy 2:10KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 8:23KJV

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Proverbs 30:6KJV

The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:

1 Kings 4:11KJV

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

1 Samuel 9:9KJV

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

Numbers 3:33KJV

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:8KJV

The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

1 Chronicles 2:5KJV

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:22KJV

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Isaiah 41:21KJV

These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.

Numbers 26:58KJV

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

2 Kings 18:2KJV

And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

Numbers 3:20KJV

And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

Genesis 36:14KJV

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

1 Kings 7:2KJV

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

Numbers 26:14KJV

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

Genesis 41:15KJV

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

2 Chronicles 13:21KJV

And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

1 Chronicles 4:35KJV

Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

Nehemiah 12:13KJV

And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

1 Kings 4:32KJV

Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

1 Chronicles 12:5KJV

And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

Joshua 21:6KJV

Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi–shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

1 Samuel 14:49KJV

Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

Genesis 22:21KJV

And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

1 Kings 2:17KJV

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

Genesis 40:18KJV

Sons of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy and two.

Nehemiah 7:9YLT

And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

2 Kings 22:10KJV

(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

Deuteronomy 3:9KJV

The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:30KJV

Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Job 11:1KJV

And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:

Genesis 40:12KJV

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

1 Kings 7:29KJV

And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

Numbers 22:10KJV

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

1 Chronicles 12:13KJV

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

2 Kings 14:17KJV

And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

Nehemiah 12:12KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

Leviticus 11:1KJV

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Genesis 23:10KJV

And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

Leviticus 11:13KJV

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Psalms 78:2KJV

Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

1 Chronicles 11:41KJV

Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

1 Kings 4:17KJV

And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;

Joshua 19:28KJV

And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

2 Samuel 5:13KJV

And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

Genesis 36:26KJV

Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:

Numbers 26:23KJV

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

Genesis 41:17KJV

And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

1 Samuel 21:5KJV

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Isaiah 29:11KJV

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 17:1KJV

This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

Numbers 19:2KJV

Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

1 Chronicles 3:13KJV

And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

Numbers 23:29KJV

And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

Genesis 25:3KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 31:12KJV

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

Nehemiah 12:23KJV

And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,

Joshua 21:36KJV

Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

Nehemiah 10:11KJV

And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

Genesis 29:23KJV

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.

Numbers 30:12KJV

And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo–debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

2 Samuel 17:27KJV

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

Deuteronomy 13:1KJV

And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.

Leviticus 15:19KJV

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chronicles 13:22KJV

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

Proverbs 30:1KJV

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 22:24KJV

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

Leviticus 11:9KJV

And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

1 Kings 15:17KJV

Understanding biblical interpretation is crucial for anyone seeking a deeper connection with God's word. The verses explored highlight the importance of prayerful study, reliance on the Holy Spirit, consideration of historical context, and the need for discernment. They emphasize that Scripture interprets Scripture, encouraging a holistic and interconnected understanding rather than isolated readings. Ultimately, these verses serve as a compass, guiding us towards a more accurate and meaningful comprehension of God's message. As we reflect on these principles, let us commit to diligent study, humble reliance on divine guidance, and a willingness to learn from others within the body of Christ. By embracing these practices, we can unlock the treasures of Scripture and apply its wisdom to our lives, growing in faith and becoming more effective witnesses for God's kingdom.