Nehemiah 9:1

CHAPTER IX

On the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, the people hold

a solemn fast unto the Lord, and confess their sins, 1-3.

The Levites give a general account of God's kindness and

forbearance to them and to their fathers; and acknowledge God's

mercies and judgments, 4-37.

They make a covenant with the Lord, 38.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX

Verse Nehemiah 9:1. Now in the twenty and fourth day] The feast of trumpets was on the first day of this month; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which, lasting seven days, finished on the twenty-second; on the twenty-third they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives and children; and, on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law, which they closed by renewing their covenants.