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The Septuagint and the Vulgate remove the comma after “stairs.” By
the “stairs (or scaffold) of the Levites” is to be understood as
an elevated platform from which they could the better address and le...
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CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The public humiliation and confession (Nehemiah 9:1)_
2. The great confession and prayer (Nehemiah 9:6)
Nehemiah 9:1. Two days after the feast of tabernacles had been
concluded this h...
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THE FAST AND A NATIONAL CONFESSION. All that took place, as described
in this section, was the result of the reading of the Law. The command
to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles having been observed,...
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STAIRS. platform. Omit the comma.
BANI, AND CHENANI. Some codices, with Septuagint, read "sons of
Chenani"....
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_a_. The Day of National Humiliation, and its religious services
It must be admitted that, if the Great Day of Atonement were observed
at this time, it is strange that its occurrence in this month wa...
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_upon the stairs_(Marg. Or, _scaffold) of the Levites_ R.V. UPON THE
STAIRS OF THE LEVITES. According to a common but inaccurate
punctuation of the A.V., _of the Levites_is applied to the list of
name...
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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
B. The Levites lead in a psalm of confession.
1. Introduction: The occasion on which the prayer was offered is
described.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:1-5 a
1
Now on the twenty...
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_THEN STOOD UP UPON THE STAIRS, OF THE LEVITES, JESHUA, AND BANI,
KADMIEL, SHEBANIAH, BUNNI, SHEREBIAH, BANI, AND CHENANI, AND CRIED
WITH A LOUD VOICE UNTO THE LORD THEIR GOD._
Then stood up upon the...
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THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT
4. Stairs] lit. 'ascent': probably the pulpit of wood mentioned in
Nehemiah 8:4. BANI.. BANI] One of the two names is probably an error
for 'Binnui': cp. Nehemiah 12:8....
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 9
Nehemiah still had not finished his work for God. He could have
returned to Persia. He had a success...
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Some *Levites led the people to pray to God. Other *Levites led the
people to *worship and to praise God.
They remembered that God has always lived. He was not born and he will
not die. He made every...
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STAIRS, OF THE LEVITES. — _The scaffold of the Levites,_ without the
comma: the steps of ascent to the pulpit of Ezra (Nehemiah 8:2).
BANI, AND CHENANI. — Probably, _Binnui and Haman_ (Nehemiah 10:9)...
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וַ יָּ֜קָם עַֽל ־מַֽעֲלֵ֣ה הַ
לְוִיִּ֗ם יֵשׁ֨
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THE RELIGION OF HISTORY
Nehemiah 9:1
AFTER the carnival-Lent. This Catholic procedure was anticipated by
the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. The merry feast of
Tabernacles was scarcely over, w...
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GOD'S HAND IN HISTORY
Nehemiah 9:1
What a blessed result of the Bible-study of the previous chapter. It
led to confession, separation from evil association and worship. It is
good to review the deali...
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After a brief interval, following the feast came the great day of
humiliation. The people separated themselves entirely from all who
were not actually within the Covenant, and gave themselves to
confe...
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(4) В¶ Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and
Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and
cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. (5) Then the Levit...
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Revival
I. INTRODUCTION
A. As I pointed out last week, Chapter's 7 & 8 began the second
"phase" in the book of Nehemiah.
1. The first part being the construction of the walls.
2. The second, being...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11.
On the twenty-fourth day, the people came together to humble
themselves in a manner that became their position, and they separated
themselves f...
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Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani,
Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, [and] Chenani, and cried
with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
Ver. 4. _Then stood up...
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_They stood upon the stairs_ Upon such stairs or pulpits as the
Levites usually stood upon when they taught the people. But they stood
upon several pulpits, each of them teaching that part of the
cong...
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[A SOLEMNE FAST.]
1 A solemne Fast, and repentance of the people.
4 The Leuites make a religious confession of Gods goodnes, and their
wickednes.
1 NOW in the [NOTE: Esther 8:2.] twentie and fourth...
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The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness...
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Then stood up upon the stairs, the platforms from which the people
were usually addressed, OF THE LEVITES, JESHUA, AND BANI, KADMIEL,
SHEBANIAH, BANI, SHEREBIAH, EANI, AND CHENANI, AND CRIED WITH A LO...
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ISRAEL'S GUILT CONFESSED TO THEIR CREATOR
(vv. 1-6)
The Great Day of Atonement was on the _first_ day of the seventh
month, followed by the Feast of Tabernacles beginning the 15th day;
but what shou...
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STAIRS:
Or, scaffold...
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4-38 The summary of their prayers we have here upon record. Much
more, no doubt, was said. Whatever ability we have to do any thing in
the way of duty, we are to serve and glorify God according to th...
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UPON THE STAIRS, OF THE LEVITES, or, upon the scaffold, &c., i.e. upon
such stairs, or rather scaffolds, or pulpits, as the Levites used to
stand upon when they taught the people. But you must not thi...
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Nehemiah 9:4 Jeshua H3442 Bani H1137 Kadmiel H6934 Shebaniah H7645
Bunni H1138 Sherebiah H8274 Bani H1137 Chenani H3662
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THE CRY OF THE LEVITES TO GOD ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE (NEHEMIAH 9:4).
What follows was presumably the culmination of the three hours of
confession and worship, and was a summing up in prayer by the ch...
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THE CHIEF LEVITES WHO LED THE CONFESSION, WORSHIP AND INTERCESSION
(NEHEMIAH 9:4).
In Nehemiah 9:4 we presumably have a list of the princes of the
Levites, who took their stand on the stairs of the Le...
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THE PEOPLE MOURN OVER THEIR SINS, CONFESS THEM, AND ARE LED BY THE
LEVITES IN A PRAYER OF CONTRITION AND REMEMBRANCE OF GOD'S GRACE
CONTINUALLY REVEALED TOWARDS THEM IN THE PAST, IN HOPE THAT IN THE
F...
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CONTENTS: The people feast and repent. Confession of the priests and
Levites.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Shebmah, Bunni,
Chenani, Hash-habaliah, Hodijah, Pethahiah.
CONCLUSION...
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Nehemiah 9:1. On _the twenty fourth day of this month._ The third day
after the feast of tabernacles, the people assembled with fasting, to
abjure associations with heathen women. See Ezra 10:3.
Nehem...
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_And cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God._
THE SUPPLIANT
The true test of the good received in religious ordinances is their
sanctifying effect on the life. Many a tree is gay with bloss...
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NEHEMIAH 9:1 A Prayer of Confession, Penitence, and Covenant
Commitment. The next phase in the great act of covenant renewal is a
prayer of praise, confession, and petition.
⇐...
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The confession recorded in this chapter uses
largely the language of the older Scriptures. For Nehemiah 9:6 see
Psalms 86:10; Exodus 20:11, and...
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EXPOSITION
SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH
GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO...
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Now in chapter 9:
In the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were
assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them
(Nehemiah 9:1).
So, again, it's quite a pictures...
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2 Chronicles 20:19; Acts 7:60; John 11:43; Lamentations 3:8;...
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Stairs — Upon such stairs, or pulpits, as the Levites used to stand
upon, when they taught the people. But they stood upon several
pulpits, each of them teaching that part of the congregation which wa...