Nehemiah 13:16

Traffic on the Sabbath.

therein i.e. in the city.

which brought fish R.V. which brought in fish. These would be the salted and dried fish from the Mediterranean, cf. Nehemiah 3:3.

ware i.e. anything offered for sale.

sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah The fault lay with the buyers, as is shown in the next verse.

and in Jerusalem The words are added emphatically, as if Nehemiah had said -to think of such a thing being possible in the holy city."