"Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and truec laws, good statutes and commandments:"
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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...
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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,...
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THOU EARNEST DOWN. Compare Exodus 19:20; Exodus 20:1.
TRUE LAWS. Hebrew laws of truth. See note on John 1:17.
GOOD STATUTES. See note on Genesis 26:5.Deuteronomy 4:7....
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The Sinaitic Legislation
13. _mount Sinai_ It will be observed that Sinai, not Horeb, is
referred to. The reference is taken from Exodus 19:18, -And mount
Sinai … the Lord descended upon it.… 19. Mos...
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4. God's hand is seen in the Exodus.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:9-15
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Thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt,
And didst hear their cry by the Red Sea.
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Then Thou didst perform signs and...
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_THOU ART THE LORD THE GOD, WHO DIDST CHOOSE ABRAM, AND BROUGHTEST HIM
FORTH OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES, AND GAVEST HIM THE NAME OF ABRAHAM;_
NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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9:13 judgments (a-20) Or 'ordinances.'...
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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....
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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...
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RIGHT JUDGEMENTS. — Five of the names given to the law of God in
Psalms 119 are singled out and applied to the Sinaitic legislation
first, and then to the subsequent ordinances of Moses generally. But...
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וְ עַ֤ל הַר ־סִינַי֙ יָרַ֔דְתָּ וְ
דַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּהֶ֖ם מִ שָּׁמָ֑יִם וַ
תִּתֵּ֨ן לָהֶ֜ם מִשְׁפָּטִ֤ים...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(6) Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven
of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are
therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preserve...
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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...
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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...
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Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from
heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes
and commandments:
Ver. 13. _Thou camest down also upon mount S...
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_And gavest them good statutes_ The moral and judicial precepts were
all founded on natural equity. And even the ceremonial were tokens of
God's goodness, being types of gospel grace....
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[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...
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The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness...
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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 sho...
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TRUE LAWS:
_ Heb._ laws of truth...
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4-38 The summary of their prayers we have here upon record. Much
more, no doubt, was said. Whatever ability we have to do any thing in
the way of duty, we are to serve and glorify God according to th...
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TRUE LAWS; not such laws as some of the heathen laws were, which
taught them falsehood, superstition, idolatry, and other errors; but
such as discover the truth, and the true mind and will of God, and...
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Nehemiah 9:13 down H3381 (H8804) Mount H2022 Sinai H5514 spoke H1696
(H8763) heaven H8064 gave H5414 (H8799) just H3477 ordinances H4941
true H571 laws H8451 Good H2896 statutes H2706 commandments H46...
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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...
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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.
CONCLUSIO...
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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.
Nehe...
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_And cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God._
THE SUPPLIANT
The true test of the good received in religious ordinances is their
sanctifying effect on the life. Many a tree is gay with bloss...
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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.
⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = docum...
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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 Deuteronomy 10:14. For Nehemiah 9:9...
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EXPOSITION
SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH
GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO BY THE PRINCES, PRIESTS,
AND LEVITES (Nehemiah 9:1.). When the law was f...
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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 picture...
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Deuteronomy 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 33:2; Deuteronomy
4:10; Deuteronomy 4:33; Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy
5:4; Exodus 19:11;...
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Good statutes — The moral and judicial precepts were all founded on
natural equity. And even the ceremonial were tokens of God's goodness,
being types of gospel — grace....