"Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place."
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The names here (and in Nehemiah 9:4, Nehemiah 9:5; Nehemiah 10:9) seem
not to be the personal appellations of individuals, but rather
designations of Levitical families, the descendants respectively o...
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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.
Nehemiah 7:73 b. These words are repeated by mistake from Ezra 3:1.
NEHEMIAH...
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AND JESHUA, AND BANI, ETC.,.. CAUSED THE PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND.
These persons, Levites, and probably the heads of Levitical families,
are named again in chapter 9:4, 5, as discharging very important
d...
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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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_ALSO JESHUA, AND BANI, AND SHEREBIAH, JAMIN, AKKUB, SHABBETHAI,
HODIJAH, MAASEIAH, KELITA, AZARIAH, JOZABAD, HANAN, PELAIAH, AND THE
LEVITES, CAUSED THE PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE LAW: AND THE PEOPLE S...
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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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וְ יֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּ בָנִ֡י וְ
שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב
שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֹֽודִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה
קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יֹ
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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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(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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Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people
[s...
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_The Levites caused the people to understand the law_ As well the
words, which, being Hebrew, needed to be translated into the Chaldee
or Syriac language, now the common language of that people; who,...
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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 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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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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CAUSED THE PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE LAW; as well the words, which
being Hebrew, now needed to be translated into the Chaldee or Syriac
language, which was now and henceforth the common language of tha...
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Nehemiah 8:7 Jeshua H3442 Bani H1137 Sherebiah H8274 Jamin H3226 Akkub
H6126 Shabbethai H7678 Hodijah H1941 Maaseiah H4641 Kelita H7042
Azariah H5838 Jozabad H3107 Hanan H2605 Pelaiah H6411 Levites H3...
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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...
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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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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 THE PEOPLE BY EZRA, AND CELEBRATION OF THE
FEAST OF TABERNACLES (Ne...
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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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2 Chronicles 17:7; 2 Chronicles 30:22; Deuteronomy 33:10; Ezra 10:22;
Ezra 10:23; Ezra 8:18; Leviticus 10:11; Malachi 2:7; Nehemiah 10:10;...
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Understand — As well the words, which being Hebrew, now needed to be
translated into the Chaldee or Syriack language, now, the common
language of that people, who together with their religion, had als...