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II. THE SPIRITUAL REVIVAL
CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The reading of the law before the water gate (Nehemiah 8:1)_
2. A day of joy and not of mourning (Nehemiah 8:9)
3. The keeping of the feast of tabernacles...
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PART IV (Nehemiah 7:73_ b_ - Nehemiah 10:39). EZRA AND THE LAW.
Nehemiah 7:73 b - Nehemiah 8:12. The Reading of the Law.
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SO THE LEVITES STILLED THE PEOPLE.
Probably those named in verse 7. They acted as the agents of Nehemiah
and Ezra to make their words and wishes known. Now they repressed all
manifestations of grief,...
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_Hold your peace_ This expression has been compared with the Latin
-Favete linguis." It was ill-omened to make use of words or signs of
lamentation on a holy day, cf. Habakkuk 2:20, -The Lord is in hi...
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Nehemiah 7:73; Nehemiah 7:73. The Reading of the Law
This verse begins a new section in the work. The style alters. The
use of the first pers. sing. is resumed in Nehemiah 12:31. The
Compiler has rec...
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2. The people celebrate with joy and feasting.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 8:9-12
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Then Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe,
and the Levites who taught the people said to all the peo...
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_THEN HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YOUR WAY, EAT THE FAT, AND DRINK THE
SWEET, AND SEND PORTIONS UNTO THEM FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED: FOR
THIS DAY IS HOLY UNTO OUR LORD: NEITHER BE YE SORRY; FOR THE JOY O...
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THE READING OF THE LAW BY EZRA
1. The street] RV 'the broad place': and so in Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah
8:16. THE WATER GATE] This probably led to the spring of Gihon (the
Virgin's spring)....
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HOLD YOUR PEACE] in order to guard against uttering words ill-suited
to a holy day....
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THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN
NEHEMIAH
_ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_
CHAPTER 8
In Nehemiah 7:6-73, Nehemiah copied the register of the first people
who returned from *exile. This...
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The people had not heard God’s law for a long time. Ezra read the
law. Then the people realised that they had *sinned. God had sent his
people into *exile because they had *sinned. This made the peopl...
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וְ הַ לְוִיִּ֞ם מַחְשִׁ֤ים לְ כָל ־הָ
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THE JOY OF THE LORD
Nehemiah 8:9
"ALL the people wept when they heard the words of the law." Was it for
this mournful end that Ezra had studied the sacred law and guarded it
through the long years of...
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NEW LIGHT FROM GOD'S LAW
Nehemiah 8:1
Surely this was the first public Bible-reading! When will the people
be again as hungry for the Word of God as these Jews who stood in the
open space from early...
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We now come to the second section of the Book, which gives an account
of the special reading of the Law, and the reform which followed. Ezra
now appears on the scene. There has been some speculation a...
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(10) Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the
sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for
this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the j...
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The Joy of the Lord
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE RESULT Nehemiah 8:1-12 (NKJV) Now all the people gathered
together as one man in the open square that [was] in front of the
Water Gate; and they told Ezra...
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By means of Ezra and Nehemiah, the law resumes its authority, and that
at the people's own request, for God had prepared their hearts.
Accordingly, God had gathered them together on the first day of t...
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So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for
the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved.
Ver. 11. _So the Levites stilled all the people_] Made them hold
their tongues, and forbe...
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_So the Levites stilled the people_ Whose passions, being once raised,
could not very soon be composed. _Saying, Hold your peace, for the day
is holy_ Cease from weeping and mournful cries, and turn y...
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[THE LAW IS READ.]
1 The religious maner of reading and hearing the Law.
9 They comfort the people.
13 The forwardnesse of them to heare and be instructed.
16 They keepe the feast of Tabernacles....
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THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...
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So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for
the day is holy; neither be ye grieved....
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THE READING OF THE LAW
(vv. 1-12)
We have seen at the end of chapter 6 the wall was completed, and in
chapter 7 appointments were made for the proper order to be maintained
in the city. Now another...
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9-12 It was a good sign that their hearts were tender, when they
heard the words of the law. The people were to send portions to those
for whom nothing was prepared. It is the duty of a religious fea...
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THE LEVITES STILLED ALL THE PEOPLE; whose passions being once raised,
could not suddenly be composed. HOLD YOUR PEACE; cease from weeping
and mournful cries, and turn your lamentations into thanksgivi...
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Nehemiah 8:11 Levites H3881 quieted H2814 (H8688) people H5971 saying
H559 (H8800) still H2013 (H8761) day...
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THE PEOPLE WEPT ON HEARING THE LAW AND WERE EXHORTED NOT TO DO SO BY
THEIR LEADERS ON THE GROUNDS THAT THIS WAS AN OCCASION FOR CELEBRATION
(NEHEMIAH 8:9).
It is apparent that there was a revival atmo...
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THE READING AND EXPLAINING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND A
REVIEW OF THEIR PAST HISTORY, LEADS TO THEM ESTABLISHING A RENEWAL OF
THEIR COVENANT WITH GOD (NEHEMIAH 8:1 TO NEHEMIAH 10:39).
Regar...
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THE LAW OF MOSES IS READ AND EXPLAINED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE
FEASTS OF THE SEVENTH MONTH (NEHEMIAH 8:1).
The final words that closed off the list of returnees formed a
suitable preface to what Neh...
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CONTENTS: The law read and explained. Feast of tabernacles restored.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezra, Nehemiah.
CONCLUSION: Reading the Scripture in religious assemblies is an
ordinance of God whereby He is h...
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Nehemiah 8:2. _Upon the first day of the seventh month,_ the day when
the civil year began, reckoned from the creation of the world. Ezra
began the year, like Adam, with a holy convocation. He, and ot...
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_And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the
street._
THE INSTRUCTOR IN THE LAW
God has evermore blessed His own Word as the chosen instrument of all
revival and progress in H...
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NEHEMIAH 8:1 The Reading of the Law, and Covenant Renewal. In this
long section, the Book of the Law is solemnly read, the Feast of
Booths is kept, and a great act of covenant renewal is performed. Fo...
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NEHEMIAH 8:9 The People Are to Be Joyful. Though sorrow for sin was
the desired response to the teaching, joy at renewed relationship with
God was its ultimate purpose. THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STR...
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.]
NEHEMIAH 8:1. STREET] Rather “square.” An open place at the gate
of Oriental cities where trials were held and wares set forth for
sale.—_Gesenius_. THE WATER GATE] Sec addenda to...
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PART II.
ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AMONG THE JEWS UNDER THE
ADMINISTRATION OF NEHEMIAH.
EXPOSITION
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF...
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Shall we turn at this time in our Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 8.
Nehemiah has returned to Jerusalem some ninety years after the first
return. Some 160 years from the beginning of the Babylonian captivi...
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Numbers 13:30...