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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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AND HE READ... FROM THE MORNING UNTIL THE MIDDAY.
This was continued on the second day, (verse 13) and probably each day
during the feast. It must be ever borne in mind that there were then
no printed...
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MORNING. daylight.
MEN. Hebrew, plural _'enosh_. App-14....
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_before the street_ R.V. BEFORE THE BROAD PLACE. The -broad place" was
_before_the water-gate; Ezra read _before_the broad place. In each
case the preposition seems to mean on the W. side, i.e. _in fr...
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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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TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT
II. The Law is Read in Public, and its Ceremonies are Resumed: Chapter
s 8-10
A. The Law is Read and the Feast of Booths is Kept.
1. Ezra instructs the people in the L...
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_AND EZRA THE PRIEST BROUGHT THE LAW BEFORE THE CONGREGATION BOTH OF
MEN AND WOMEN, AND ALL THAT COULD HEAR WITH UNDERSTANDING, UPON THE
FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH._
No JFB commentary on these ve...
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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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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 finished the work on the walls of Jerusalem in the 6th
month of the year (Nehemiah 6:15). The people had worked hard for 52
days. But Nehemiah had not finished his work. His next task w...
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וַ יִּקְרָא ־בֹו֩ לִ פְנֵ֨י הָ רְחֹ֜וב
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THE LAW
Nehemiah 8:1
THE fragmentary nature of the chronicler's work is nowhere more
apparent than in that portion of it which treats of the events
immediately following on the completion of the fort...
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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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And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate
from the morning until (c) midday, before the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of all the people...
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_In plainly. Protestants, "therein, before the street." (Haydock) ---
Esdras probably read select pieces from Leviticus, &c., but
principally from Deuteronomy. (Menochius)_...
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(3) And he read therein before the street that was before the water
gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and
those that could understand; and the ears of all the people we...
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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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And he read therein before the street that [was] before the water gate
from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those
that could understand; and the ears of all the people [wer...
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_He read therein, from the morning until mid-day_ In the Hebrew, the
words are, _from the light_, that is, from the break of day, or the
sun-rising, _until noon:_ Then, it is likely, they went to take...
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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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And he read therein, from the roll of parchment on which the Books of
Moses were written, BEFORE THE STREET THAT WAS BEFORE THE WATER GATE,
before the great assembly in the public square, FROM THE MOR...
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THE LAW READ AND HEARD...
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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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FROM THE MORNING:
_ Heb._ from the light...
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1-8 Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but
praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as
acceptably performed in one place as in another. Masters of familie...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Nehemiah 8:3 read H7121 (H8799) in H6440 square H7339 front H6440
Water H4325 Gate H8179 morning H216 midday...
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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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THE READING AND EXPLAINING OF THE LAW (NEHEMIAH 8:1).
The first stage of covenant renewal was the reading and explaining of
the Law. Such reading and explaining of a section of the Law may well
have t...
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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—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 8:3 FROM EARLY MORNING UNTIL MIDDAY. The
book was lengthy, and there may have been frequent pauses for
explanation (see note on v. 7). OPENED THE BOOK. T
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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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1 Thessalonians 2:13; Acts 13:15; Acts 13:27; Acts 15:21; Acts 16:14