Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nehemiah 8 - Introduction
VIII.
Nehemiah 7:73 — Nehemiah 8:12. — Ezra instructs the people in the law.
Nehemiah 7:73. — And when the seventh month came. — Here a new subject begins, as in Ezra, whom Nehemiah copies: adopting a sentence, just as Ezra adopted the last words of the Chronicles, and with similar slight changes.