_ON THAT DAY THEY READ IN THE BOOK OF MOSES IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE; AND THEREIN WAS FOUND WRITTEN, THAT THE AMMONITE AND THE MOABITE SHOULD NOT COME INTO THE CONGREGATION OF GOD FOR EVER;_ On that day. This was not immediately consequent on the dedication of the city wall and gates, but afte... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE THEY MET NOT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WITH BREAD AND WITH WATER, BUT HIRED BALAAM AGAINST THEM, THAT HE SHOULD CURSE THEM: HOWBEIT OUR GOD TURNED THE CURSE INTO A BLESSING._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD THE LAW, THAT THEY SEPARATED FROM ISRAEL ALL THE MIXED MULTITUDE._ Separated from Israel all the mixed multitude, х_ `EEREB_ (H6154)] - the motley mass of foreigners with whom the Jews had contracted alliances. The word occurs first in reference to the Egyp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND BEFORE THIS, ELIASHIB THE PRIEST, HAVING THE OVERSIGHT OF THE CHAMBER OF THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, WAS ALLIED UNTO TOBIAH:_ Before this. The practice of these mixed marriages, in open neglect or violation of the law had become so common, that even the pontifical house, which ought to have set a be... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE HAD PREPARED FOR HIM A GREAT CHAMBER, WHERE AFORETIME THEY LAID THE MEAT OFFERINGS, THE FRANKINCENSE, AND THE VESSELS, AND THE TITHES OF THE CORN, THE NEW WINE, AND THE OIL, WHICH WAS COMMANDED TO BE GIVEN TO THE LEVITES, AND THE SINGERS, AND THE PORTERS; AND THE OFFERINGS OF THE PRIESTS._... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IN ALL THIS TIME WAS NOT I AT JERUSALEM: FOR IN THE TWO AND THIRTIETH YEAR OF ARTAXERXES KING OF BABYLON CAME I UNTO THE KING, AND AFTER CERTAIN DAYS OBTAINED I LEAVE OF THE KING:_ But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem. Eliashib-concluding that, as Nehemiah had departed from Jerusalem an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I CAME TO JERUSALEM, AND UNDERSTOOD OF THE EVIL THAT ELIASHIB DID FOR TOBIAH, IN PREPARING HIM A CHAMBER IN THE COURTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I PERCEIVED THAT THE PORTIONS OF THE LEVITES HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN THEM: FOR THE LEVITES AND THE SINGERS, THAT DID THE WORK, WERE FLED EVERY ONE TO HIS FIELD._ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them. The people, disgusted with the malversations of Eliashib or the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CONTENDED I WITH THE RULERS, AND SAID, WHY IS THE HOUSE OF GOD FORSAKEN? AND I GATHERED THEM TOGETHER, AND SET THEM IN THEIR PLACE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THOSE DAYS SAW I IN JUDAH SOME TREADING WINE PRESSES ON THE SABBATH, AND BRINGING IN SHEAVES, AND LADING ASSES; AS ALSO WINE, GRAPES, AND FIGS, AND ALL MANNER OF BURDENS, WHICH THEY BROUGHT INTO JERUSALEM ON THE SABBATH DAY: AND I TESTIFIED AGAINST THEM IN THE DAY WHEREIN THEY SOLD VICTUALS._ I... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE DWELT MEN OF TYRE ALSO THEREIN, WHICH BROUGHT FISH, AND ALL MANNER OF WARE, AND SOLD ON THE SABBATH UNTO THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH, AND IN JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEIR CHILDREN SPAKE HALF IN THE SPEECH OF ASHDOD, AND COULD NOT SPEAK IN THE JEWS' LANGUAGE, BUT ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE OF EACH PEOPLE._ Could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people - a mongrel dialect, imbibed from their mothers, together with foreig... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I CONTENDED WITH THEM, AND CURSED THEM, AND SMOTE CERTAIN OF THEM, AND PLUCKED OFF THEIR HAIR, AND MADE THEM SWEAR BY GOD, SAYING, YE SHALL NOT GIVE YOUR DAUGHTERS UNTO THEIR SONS, NOR TAKE THEIR DAUGHTERS UNTO YOUR SONS, OR FOR YOURSELVES._ Cursed, х_ 'ªQALLEEM_ (H7043)] - reproached them bit... [ Continue Reading ]
_DID NOT SOLOMON KING OF ISRAEL SIN BY THESE THINGS? YET AMONG MANY NATIONS WAS THERE NO KING LIKE HIM, WHO WAS BELOVED OF HIS GOD, AND GOD MADE HIM KING OVER ALL ISRAEL: NEVERTHELESS EVEN HIM DID OUTLANDISH WOMEN CAUSE TO SIN._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND FOR THE WOOD OFFERING, AT TIMES APPOINTED, AND FOR THE FIRSTFRUITS._ Remember me, O my God, for good. This prayer for the divine blessing, which Nehemiah frequently ejaculated and wrote, was an expression of his ardent wish or his desire to have the apostate priests punished, and his own zealo... [ Continue Reading ]