Nehemiah 5:1
A GREAT CRY. So there were troubles within as well as without. Compare 2 Corinthians 7:5. THE PEOPLE. the common people, in contrast with the nobles and rulers (Nehemiah 5:7), who had returned with Nehemiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
A GREAT CRY. So there were troubles within as well as without. Compare 2 Corinthians 7:5. THE PEOPLE. the common people, in contrast with the nobles and rulers (Nehemiah 5:7), who had returned with Nehemiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE MORTGAGED. are mortgaging. THE DEARTH. One of the thirteen famines (App-10) recorded in Scripture. See note on Genesis 12:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. LO. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN. And. RULERS. See note on Nehemiah 2:16. EXACT USURY. It was twelve per cent. See Nehemiah 5:11. ONE. man. SET. appointed. ASSEMBLY. body [of witnesses.] Hebrew. _kehallah_ (feminine.) Occurs only here and Deuteronomy 33:4. AGAINST. over.... [ Continue Reading ]
REDEEMED. re-purchased. Hebrew. _kanah_, to acquire by purchase; not _ga'al_, to redeem by purchase; or _padah_, to deliver by power. See notes on Exodus 6:6; Exodus 13:13. HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO. are doing. OUGHT YE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SERVANTS. young men. LEAVE OFF. Hebrew. _Homonym, 'azab._ Here means to leave off. See note on Nehemiah 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HUNDREDTH PART. Paid at one per cent, per month, as was the custom; it was twelve per cent, per annum. THE WINE. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Syriac, read "and the new wine". WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. CALLED: i.e. as witnesses.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONGREGATION. assembly or muster. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._... [ Continue Reading ]
MOREOVER FROM THE TIME THAT. WAS APPOINTED, &C. Nehemiah 5:14 are put within brackets for the following reasons: As Nehemiah's record must have been written many years later, after the dedication both of the Temple (405 B.C.) and the Wall (403 B.C.), the reference to his policy during the twelve yea... [ Continue Reading ]
See Nehemiah 5:14 for. longer note that applies to this verse. BESIDE. Heb, _'ahar_. after: i.e. after the rate of, as in Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 18:12. Rendered "beside" only here, out of several hundred times.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Nehemiah 5:14 for. longer note that applies to this verse. WE _._ Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "I... [ Continue Reading ]
See Nehemiah 5:14 for. longer note that applies to this verse. FIFTY OF. fifty men of. HEATHEN. nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Nehemiah 5:14 for. longer note that applies to this verse. PREPARED. At Nehemiah's own cost. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27.... [ Continue Reading ]
See Nehemiah 5:14 for. longer note that applies to this verse. THINK. Figure of speech _Apostrophe_ (App-6) and Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_.... [ Continue Reading ]