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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nehemiah 9:3

One fourth part. — Both day and night were divided into four parts. All orders standing in their respective place, the reading occupied the morning and the worship the afternoon. It is the latter which is now made prominent, as the former had been prominent in the preceding chapter.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nehemiah 9:3. ONE _FOURTH PART OF THE DAY_] As they did no manner of work on this day of fasting and humiliation, so they spent the whole of it in religious duties. They began, says _Calmet_, o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The public humiliation and confession (Nehemiah 9:1)_ 2. The great confession and prayer (Nehemiah 9:6) Nehemiah 9:1. Two days after the feast of tabernacles had been concluded this h...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FAST AND A NATIONAL CONFESSION. All that took place, as described in this section, was the result of the reading of the Law. The command to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles having been observed,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE BOOK OF THE LAW. See App-47. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a_. The Day of National Humiliation, and its religious services It must be admitted that, if the Great Day of Atonement were observed at this time, it is strange that its occurrence in this month wa...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _stood up_ Literally, -arose." _in their place_ cf. Nehemiah 8:7. The people appear to have continued standing where they were for six hours, listening for three hours and worshipping three hours. _a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT B. The Levites lead in a psalm of confession. 1. Introduction: The occasion on which the prayer was offered is described. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:1-5 a 1 Now on the twenty...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THEY STOOD UP IN THEIR PLACE, AND READ IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF THE LORD THEIR GOD ONE FOURTH PART OF THE DAY; AND ANOTHER FOURTH PART THEY CONFESSED, AND WORSHIPPED THE LORD THEIR GOD._ Read i...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT 4. Stairs] lit. 'ascent': probably the pulpit of wood mentioned in Nehemiah 8:4. BANI.. BANI] One of the two names is probably an error for 'Binnui': cp. Nehemiah 12:8....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    So the people had the special holiday of the shelters in the 7th month of the year. It lasted from the 15th day of the month until the 22nd day (Nehemiah 8:14-18). It was a happy holiday. Two days la...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 9 Nehemiah still had not finished his work for God. He could have returned to Persia. He had a success...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּק֨וּמוּ֙ עַל ־עָמְדָ֔ם וַֽ יִּקְרְא֗וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE RELIGION OF HISTORY Nehemiah 9:1 AFTER the carnival-Lent. This Catholic procedure was anticipated by the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. The merry feast of Tabernacles was scarcely over, w...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S HAND IN HISTORY Nehemiah 9:1 What a blessed result of the Bible-study of the previous chapter. It led to confession, separation from evil association and worship. It is good to review the deali...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    After a brief interval, following the feast came the great day of humiliation. The people separated themselves entirely from all who were not actually within the Covenant, and gave themselves to confe...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they (b) confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Stand, to hear the law, out of reverence; (Menochius) or the Levites ascended the pulpit to read, four times in the day. (Tirinus) --- After each lecture psalms were sung, (Calmet) to praise God, and...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. The...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Revival I. INTRODUCTION A. As I pointed out last week, Chapter's 7 & 8 began the second "phase" in the book of Nehemiah. 1. The first part being the construction of the walls. 2. The second, being...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God [one] fourth part of the day; and [another] fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. Ver....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They stood up and read in the book of the law_ That is, the Levites stood up in a place built for them, and read the law as they did before, interpreting the sense of what they read. _One fourth part...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    [A SOLEMNE FAST.] 1 A solemne Fast, and repentance of the people. 4 The Leuites make a religious confession of Gods goodnes, and their wickednes. 1 NOW in the [NOTE: Esther 8:2.] twentie and fourth...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they, probably Ezra and his assistants, STOOD UP IN THEIR PLACE, on the platform erected for that purpose, AND READ IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF THE LORD, THEIR GOD, ONE-FOURTH PART OF THE DAY, appar...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S GUILT CONFESSED TO THEIR CREATOR (vv. 1-6) The Great Day of Atonement was on the _first_ day of the seventh month, followed by the Feast of Tabernacles beginning the 15th day; but what shou...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 The word will direct and quicken prayer, for by it the Spirit helps our infirmities in prayer. The careful study of God's word will more and more discover to us our own sinfulness, and the plenteo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    READ IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW; so as they did before, giving them the sense of what they read; of which SEE POOLE ON "NEHEMIAH 8:7", SEE POOLE ON "NEHEMIAH 8:8". ONE FOURTH PART OF THE DAY, to wit, for...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nehemiah 9:3 up H6965 (H8799) place H5977 read H7121 (H8799) Book H5612 Law H8451 LORD H3068 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE MOURN OVER THEIR SINS, CONFESS THEM, AND ARE LED BY THE LEVITES IN A PRAYER OF CONTRITION AND REMEMBRANCE OF GOD'S GRACE CONTINUALLY REVEALED TOWARDS THEM IN THE PAST, IN HOPE THAT IN THE F...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PEOPLE GATHER SPONTANEOUSLY TO ADMIT THEIR SINFULNESS AND FAILURES TO GOD SEPARATING THEMSELVES FROM ALL WHO WERE TAINTED WITH IDOLATRY (NEHEMIAH 9:1). Nehemiah 9:1 ‘Now on the twenty fourth day...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The people feast and repent. Confession of the priests and Levites. CHARACTERS: God, Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Shebmah, Bunni, Chenani, Hash-habaliah, Hodijah, Pethahiah. CONCLUSION...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Nehemiah 9:1. On _the twenty fourth day of this month._ The third day after the feast of tabernacles, the people assembled with fasting, to abjure associations with heathen women. See Ezra 10:3. Nehem...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NEHEMIAH 9:1 A Prayer of Confession, Penitence, and Covenant Com­mitment. The next phase in the great act of covenant renewal is a prayer of praise, confession, and petition. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 9:2 SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM ALL FOREIGNERS. See Ezra 9:1. Here it refers not just to marriage but also to the integrity of the community in general

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The confession recorded in this chapter uses largely the language of the older Scriptures. For Nehemiah 9:6 see Psalms 86:10; Exodus 20:11, and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 9: In the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them (Nehemiah 9:1). So, again, it's quite a pictures...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:4; Nehemiah 8:7; Nehemiah 8:8...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Book of the law — As they did before, giving them the sense of what they read. Fourth part — For three hours; there were twelve hours in their day, probably they began after the morning sacrifice, and...

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