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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Nehemiah 8:10

Wine. Hebrew and Septuagint, "things." Syriac and Arabic have simply, "drink." --- Portions. The Greeks styled them, Greek: merides; and the Latins, sportulæ. The custom prevailed not only among the Jews, (Esther ix. 19.) but also among Christians and pagans. Moses frequently exhorts the people to invite the poor; (Deuteronomy xvi. 14.) and St. Paul blames the rich Corinthians, for giving no part of their feast to them, 1 Corinthians xi. 21. --- Strength. By this holy joy, we shall be encouraged to perform all our duties. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Be not downcast, because he (the Lord) is our strength." (Haydock)

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    Verse Nehemiah 8:10. _EAT THE FAT, AND DRINK THE SWEET_] Eat and drink the best that you have; and while ye are feeding yourselves in the fear of the Lord, remember those _who cannot feast_; and send...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The “sending of portions” to the poor is not distinctly mentioned in any but the later historical Scriptures (compare the margin reference). The practice naturally grew out of this injunction of the L...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    SEND PORTIONS FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED. It was the direction of the law that the enjoyment of the great feasts should be extended to the poor, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow (Deuteron...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then he said_ Who issued the command, we are not told. Clearly either Nehemiah or Ezra. Some think Nehemiah because as governor he would be the person to issue authoritative directions. But more prob...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 446 THE JOY OF THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH Nehemiah 8:10. _The joy of the Lord is your strength_. THE preaching of God’s word is a very ancient ordinance. In the context we have a description...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. The people celebrate with joy and feasting. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 8:9-12 9 Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the peo...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YOUR WAY, EAT THE FAT, AND DRINK THE SWEET, AND SEND PORTIONS UNTO THEM FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED: FOR THIS DAY IS HOLY UNTO OUR LORD: NEITHER BE YE SORRY; FOR THE JOY O...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֡ם לְכוּ֩ אִכְל֨וּ מַשְׁמַנִּ֜ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE JOY OF THE LORD Nehemiah 8:9 "ALL the people wept when they heard the words of the law." Was it for this mournful end that Ezra had studied the sacred law and guarded it through the long years of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now come to the second section of the Book, which gives an account of the special reading of the Law, and the reform which followed. Ezra now appears on the scene. There has been some speculation a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is (f) prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    By means of Ezra and Nehemiah, the law resumes its authority, and that at the people's own request, for God had prepared their hearts. Accordingly, God had gathered them together on the first day of t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for [this] day [is] holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the jo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Eat the fat, and drink the sweet_ Feast before the Lord, as the duty of the day requires you to do. _Send portions_, &c. For the relief of your poor brethren, who otherwise must mourn while you rejoi...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [THE LAW IS READ.] 1 The religious maner of reading and hearing the Law. 9 They comfort the people. 13 The forwardnesse of them to heare and be instructed. 16 They keepe the feast of Tabernacles....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, the special fine foods of the festival season, AND DRINK THE SWEET, AND SEND PORTIONS UNTO THEM FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED, with the spirit spoken o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    EAT THE FAT, AND DRINK THE SWEET; feast before the Lord, as the duty of the day obligeth you to do. SEND PORTIONS UNTO THEM FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED; for the relief of your poor brethren, who else...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nehemiah 8:10 said H559 (H8799) way H3212 (H8798) eat H398 (H8798) fat H4924 drink H8354 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE WEPT ON HEARING THE LAW AND WERE EXHORTED NOT TO DO SO BY THEIR LEADERS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THIS WAS AN OCCASION FOR CELEBRATION (NEHEMIAH 8:9). It is apparent that there was a revival atmo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Nehemiah 8:10 I. The text teaches that there is a time to be cast down with godly sorrow and there is a time to be uplifted with holy joy; and the second of these is always the fruit of the first. No...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The law read and explained. Feast of tabernacles restored. CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Nehemiah. CONCLUSION: Reading the Scripture in religious assemblies is an ordinance of God whereby He is h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXPLANATORY NOTES.] NEHEMIAH 8:1. STREET] Rather “square.” An open place at the gate of Oriental cities where trials were held and wares set forth for sale.—_Gesenius_. THE WATER GATE] Sec addenda to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn at this time in our Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 8. Nehemiah has returned to Jerusalem some ninety years after the first return. Some 160 years from the beginning of the Babylonian captivi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Corinthians 12:8; 2 Corinthians 12:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Eat — Feast before the Lord. Send — For the relief of your poor brethren. Holy — Being the feast of trumpets, and the beginning of this joyful month, wherein so many days of thanksgiving were to be ob...

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