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Verse 31. _BRING WARE_] We will most solemnly keep the Sabbath. _Leave
the seventh year_-We will let the land have its Sabbath, and rest
every seventh year. See on Exodus 23:10-2....
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BRING WARE ... ON THE SABBATH DAY - Compare Nehemiah 13:16, where this
desecration of the Sabbath is shown to have commonly taken place.
LEAVE THE SEVENTH YEAR ... - i. e., “let the land rest in the
s...
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CHAPTER 10
_ 1. Those who sealed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:1)_
2. The obligations of the covenant (Nehemiah 10:28)
Nehemiah 10:1. The last verse of the preceding chapter mentions a
covenant. “A
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NEHEMIAH 9:38 TO NEHEMIAH 10:39. THE COVENANT. This section is
probably originally from Ezra's memoirs, though it has been
considerably worked over, presumably not by the Chronicler, since he
writes i...
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Prohibition of Traffic on the Sabbath; and Observance of Sabbatic Year
_people_ R.V. PEOPLES. -The peoples of the land (_"ammey haârec̣_)
are the heathen dwellers in the land. The title -the people o...
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_OTHERS WHO JOINED IN THIS COVENANT -- NEHEMIAH 10:28-29:_
_ THE COVENANT PROMISES THAT THEY MADE -- NEHEMIAH 10:30-31:_ In their
covenant with God they promised that would not intermarry with the
hea...
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2. The content of the document is a vow of purity from the heathen.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 10:28-31
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Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers,
the singers, the temple servants...
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_AND THAT WE WOULD NOT GIVE OUR DAUGHTERS UNTO THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND,
NOR TAKE THEIR DAUGHTERS FOR OUR SONS:_
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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10:31 debt. (a-51) Lit. 'the debt of every hand,' i.e. for which any
had given his hand. Exodus 23:10 ,Exodus 23:11 ; Deuteronomy 15:1 ,...
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LIST OF THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE COVENANT
1. Now those that sealed _were_] The names that follow ZidMjah's are
those of families whose living representatives sealed on behalf of
their houses. Sev...
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LEAVE THE SEVENTH YEAR] i.e. forego the produce of the land in that
year....
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 10
The people had listened to the law of God (Nehemiah chapter 8) and
they had remembered their histor...
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The people promised God that *Jews would not marry people from other
nations. Most foreigners served other gods, which were not real gods.
God knew that the *Jews would follow the ways of the foreigne...
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(28-39) The points of the covenant....
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OR ON THE HOLY DAY. — On the great festivals, equally with the
Sabbath days of rest.
LEAVE THE SEVENTH YEAR. — The Sabbatical year naturally follows; in
it the ground should be left untilled.
THE EX...
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_[Nehemiah 10:32]_ וְ עַמֵּ֣י הָ אָ֡רֶץ הַֽ...
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THE COVENANT
Nehemiah 10:1
THE tenth chapter of Nehemiah introduces us to one of the most vital
crises in the History of Israel. It shows us how the secret cult of
the priests of Jehovah became a pop...
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A PLEDGE OF BETTER SERVICE
Nehemiah 10:28
The chapter opens with a list of the signers of the covenant, which
was signed on behalf of the people. The consecration covenant
involved-first, obedience;...
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Following their humiliation, the people entered into a new covenant
with God. This covenant was sealed representatively by the priests
(3-8), Levites (9-13), rulers (14-27). To its terms all the peopl...
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And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to sell, (f) [that] we would not buy it of them on the
sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh...
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_Holy day. The contrary practice is therefore sinful. (Haydock) ---
Year. Not cultivating the land, Leviticus xxv. 4. --- Hand. No debts
were to be demanded, Deuteronomy xv. 1. (Menochius)_...
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(29) They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a
curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by
Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandmen...
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JOHN BROWN
Nehemiah 10-13
It's Not How You Start
I. INTRODUCTION
A. In our last study of the book of Nehemiah, we saw how the Lord had
blessed His people by the reading and understanding of His Wo...
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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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And [if] the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to sell, [that] we would not buy it of them on the
sabbath, or on the holy day: and [that] we would leave the seventh
year...
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_And if the people of the land_ The heathen; _bring ware or victuals
on the sabbath day to sell, we would not buy it_ They not only would
not sell goods themselves for gain on that day, but they would...
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1 The names of them that sealed the couenant.
29 The points of the couenant.
1 NOW those [NOTE: _Hebrew:_ at the sealings.] that sealed were,
Nehemiah [NOTE: Or, the gouernour.] the Tirshatha the so...
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and if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
Sabbath-day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath
or on the holy-day, on any festival-day fixed by the ordinance of G...
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THE PROVISIONS OF THE COVENANT...
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THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SEALED
(vv. 1-27)
Nehemiah is first mentioned as having endorsed the covenant, then 22
priests listed along with him (vv. 1-8). Then 17 Levites are listed
(vv. 9-13), followed...
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EVERY:
_ Heb._ every hand...
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1-31 Conversion is separating from the course and custom of this
world, devoting ourselves to the conduct directed by the word of God.
When we bind ourselves to do the commandments of God, it is to do...
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THAT WE WOULD LEAVE THE SEVENTH YEAR, i.e. leave the land at rest from
ploughing or tilling it in that year, according to God's command,
EXODUS 23:10,11 LE 25:4. THE EXACTION OF EVERY DEBT, Heb. _hand...
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Nehemiah 10:31 peoples H5971 land H776 brought H935 (H8688) wares
H4728 grain H7668 sell H4376 (H8800) Sabbath...
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THE DETAILS OF THE AGREEMENT (NEHEMIAH 10:29).
Throughout the books of Ezra and Nehemiah certain particular
contemporary issues stand out. These include the taking of idolatrous
foreign wives (Nehemia...
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CONTENTS: The covenant and the signers.
CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah.
CONCLUSION: Conversion means a separating of ourselves from the course
and custom of this world and devoting ourselves to the condu...
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Nehemiah 10:1. _Those that sealed_ were the governor, the priests, the
levites, and the chiefs or princes of the people. The more
distinguished men of these several orders, with the full sanction of
a...
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_And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the
sabbath day to all _
THE PROFIT OF SABBATH-KEEPING
John Brand was an old Cornish fisherman.
The fishing had not been good for some da...
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_Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah._
COVENANTING WITH GOD -
I. The parties entering the covenant.
1. Nehemiah the governor. This is true greatness in the sight of God,
to be foremost in consecra...
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NEHEMIAH 10:1 Signatories and Specific Commitments. Many of the people
agree to the covenant, and they accept the responsibility of funding
the temple’s activities.
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 10:31 The SABBATH commandment (Exodus
20:8; Deuteronomy 5:
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.] NEHEMIAH 10:1.] “First came the name of the
governor, _the Tirshatha;_ next _Zidkijah_, perhaps the secretary to
the governor. Then follow twenty-one names of _priests_, seventeen...
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EXPOSITION
THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO SEALED, AND THE TERMS OF THE COVENANT (Nehemiah
10:1.). The covenant which the Levites had recommended, probably at
the suggestion of Nehemiah and
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Now these words were sealed and these people signed the covenant,
starting with Nehemiah, the governor. And it gives the names of the
leaders who signed the covenant.
And the rest of the people, the p...
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2 Chronicles 36:21; Colossians 2:16; Deuteronomy 15:1; Deuteronomy
15:7;...
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People of the land — The Heathens. On the sabbath — They that
covenant to keep all the commandments of God, must particularly
covenant to keep the sabbath holy. For the profanation of this is a
sure i...