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Verse 27. _SHALL WE THEN HEARKEN UNTO YOU_] If God spared not
_Solomon_, who was so much beloved of Him, shall we spare _you_, who
by your conduct are bringing down God's judgments upon Israel?...
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CHAPTER 13
_ 1. The separation of the mixed multitude (Nehemiah 13:1)_
2. The unholy alliance repudiated (Nehemiah 13:4)
3. Nehemiah's action in behalf of the Levites and singers (Nehemiah
13:10
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SOME DETAILS OF NEHEMIAH'S RULE. This section, taken for the most part
from Nehemiah's memoirs, deals with his zeal for the sanctity of the
Temple (Nehemiah 13:4), his organisation for the maintenance...
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SHALL WE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44.
TRANSGRESS. Hebrew. _ma'al._ App-44.
STRANGE. foreign. Hebrew. _nakar,_ as in Nehemiah 13:30....
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_Shall we then hearken unto you_ The rendering is disputed.
According to the English Version, the sense is, -are we to listen to
your expostulations and entreaties, and permit this evil to go on
unch...
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Nehemiah's protest against mixed marriages, cf. Nehemiah 9:2; Nehemiah
10:28; Nehemiah 10:30; Ezra 9:1 ff;...
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5. Nehemiah deals with the problem of mixed marriages.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 13:23-29
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In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod,
Ammon, and Moab.
24
As for their children,...
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_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
OUT...
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THE REFORM OF ABUSES
The reforms embraced the separation of Israel from the mixed multitude
and the abolition of certain abuses that had arisen in connexion with
the chambers of the Temple, the provi...
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Nehemiah discovered something else when he returned to *Judah. Some of
the men had married women from the nations called Ashdod, Ammon and
Moab. God had ordered the people not to marry foreigners. He...
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 13
Twelve years after the people rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem,
Nehemiah returned to Persia. Some tim...
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(23-29) The mixed marriages again....
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וְ לָכֶ֣ם הֲ נִשְׁמַ֗ע לַ עֲשֹׂת֙ אֵ֣ת
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THE RIGOUR OF THE REFORMER
Nehemiah 13:1
THERE is no finality in history. The chapter, that seems to be rounded
off with a perfect conclusion always leaves room for an appendix,
which in its turn may...
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A DISOBEDIENT AND GAINSAYING PEOPLE
Nehemiah 13:15
Let us remember to keep perpetual Sabbath in the heart, whatever be
our outward life. In this life there is a Sabbath rest for the people
of God, He...
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In this final section we have the account of Nehemiah's last
reformation, After building the wall he had evidently gone back to the
court of the king. Twelve years later, seeking permission, he
return...
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_Also be. Hebrew, "hearken unto you;" (Protestants; Haydock) or "Have
ye not heard the evils which fell upon our fathers (Calmet) for doing
all?" &c. (Haydock)_...
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Here we have recorded another instance of the zeal of Nehemiah in
reforming abuses, both as it concerned the divine honor, and the
people's happiness. Nothing could be more important than the
preserva...
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It's Not How You Start
I. INTRODUCTION
II. Nehemiah 13:1-31 (NKJV) On that day they read from the Book of
Moses in the hearing of the people, and in it was found written that
no Ammonite or Moabite...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13.
We have already seen that gladness was the portion of the people; a
joy which acknowledged God, for God had preserved the people and had
blessed th...
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_Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil?_ That is,
would you have me to connive at this wickedness, and so bring guilt
upon myself, and ruin upon you? _And one of the sons of Joiada,...
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1 Vpon the reading of the Law, separation is made from the mixed
multitude.
4 Nehemiah at his returne, causeth the chambers to bee cleansed.
10 He reformeth the offices in the house of God.
15 The...
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INTERMARRIAGES FORBIDDEN...
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Shall we, then, hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to
transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? The inference
was, of course, that their bad example would lead others into the sam...
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SEPARATION FROM MIXTURE
(vv. 1-3)
At this same time, of which chapter 12:27-47 speaks, they read in the
Book of Moses that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the
assembly of God, because o...
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23-31 If either parent be ungodly, corrupt nature will incline the
children to take after that one; which is a strong reason why
Christians should not be unequally yoked. In the education of
children...
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SHALL WE THEN HEARKEN UNTO YOU? shall we justify our action by
permitting or not punishing it? God forbid....
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Nehemiah 13:27 hear H8085 (H8799) doing H6213 (H8800) great H1419 evil
H7451 transgressing H4603 (H8800) God...
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SEPARATION FROM IDOLATROUS FOREIGN WOMEN (NEHEMIAH 13:23).
Nehemiah's final act to which he calls God's attention is his
purifying of Jerusalem (or possibly of the new Israel) from idolatrous
foreign...
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CONTENTS: Cleansing the temple. Nehemiah's second visit to Jerusalem
and his further reforms.
CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Eliashib, Tobiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing grieves a godly man more than to see th...
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Nehemiah 13:6. _In the thirty second year of Artaxerxes._ Having been
governor in Jerusalem twelve years, Nehemiah returned _to the king,_
at Babylon; and after a residence of about twelve months at t...
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_And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Elashib
did._
THE RELIGIOUS REFORMER
Remark--
I. The state of Jerusalem during Nehemiah’s absence.
II. The reforms he achieved.
1. His pu...
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NEHEMIAH 13:23 The Problem of Intermarriage Again. As the returned
exiles ignored covenantal commitments such as Sabbath keeping, they
began losing their sense of identity as God’s special people. One...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 13:25 Nehemiah calls the people back to
the Mosaic law (Deuteronomy 7:1) and cites the example of SOLOMON, who
was turned away fro
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EXPLANATORY Notes.]
NEHEMIAH 13:1. ON THAT DAY] This is to be understood in the same sense
as _at that time_, in chap. Nehemiah 12:44. But no doubt public
readings of the law took place frequently dur...
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EXPOSITION
NEHEMIAH'S EFFORTS FOR THE REFORM OF RELIGION (Nehemiah 13:1). After
having exercised the office of governor for twelve years, from B.C.
444 to B.C. 432, Nehemiah had had occasion to visit...
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On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of all the
people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and the
Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever; Bec...
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1 Samuel 30:24; Ezra 10:2...