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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 9:1-38
The solemn fast of assembled Israel. Notice three features in the people's religious life. 1 . Their confession of sin. 2 . Their external reformation. 3 . Their solemn adoption of the written word of God as the law of their life. Take these as representative, universal. I. HUMILIATION AND CONFESSION . 1 . Public and united as well as private and solitary. Great impressiveness in numbers. The heart needs the stimulus of contact with great waves of feeling. There... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 9:2
The seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers. Compare Nehemiah 10:28 , by which it appears that the "strangers" are "the people of the lands," or neighbouring heathen, of whom there were at all times considerable numbers in Jerusalem (comp. Nehemiah 13:16 ). It was not fitting that these aliens should take part in a ceremony of which the main object was that the special people of God should renew their covenant with him. Stood and confessed. Attitude is perhaps scarcely... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 9:2-38
Appeal It has been remarked that there is no prayer in this lengthy address to God. And the absence of direct supplication is certainly very noticeable. But it must be remembered that we may make our appeal to God in more ways than by directly asking him for the blessings we desire at his hand. The comparative and almost complete absence of formal petition from this address suggests to us that we may go far towards winning our cause by— I. PRESENTING THE SOUL BEFORE GOD IN ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 9:3
In their place . See above, Nehemiah 8:7 . The people and the ministers had their appointed "places"in every gathering of a religious character. The former now "stood up" in their proper place, and read , i.e. "engaged in the reading of the law, not, however, as actual readers, but as listeners. The readers would be the Levites (see Nehemiah 8:7 , Nehemiah 8:8 ). One fourth part of the day . The day and the night were alike divided by the Jews into four parts, each of three hours... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 9:1
The festival lasted from the 15th day of the 7th month to the first. The 22nd day was a day of solemn observance Nehemiah 8:18. One day seems to have been allowed the people for rest; and then the work of repentance, for which they had shown themselves ready Nehemiah 8:9, was taken in hand, and a general fast was proclaimed. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 9:1
Nehemiah 9:1. Now in the twenty and fourth day The feast of tabernacles began on the fourteenth day, and ended on the twenty-second, all which time mourning had been forbidden, as contrary to the nature of the feast, which was to be kept with joy. But now, on the twenty-fourth, the next day but one after the feast, their consciences having been fully awakened, and their hearts filled with grief for their sins, which they were not allowed to express in that time of public joy, they resume... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 9:2
Nehemiah 9:2. The seed of Israel separated themselves From all unnecessary society with the heathen, and particularly from those strange women whom some of them had married. For although Ezra had effected this separation formerly, as far as he had knowledge of the faulty persons, and power to reform them; yet it seems there were some criminals who either had escaped his knowledge, or were beyond the reach of his power; or there were some new delinquents that since that time had fallen into... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 9:3
Nehemiah 9:3. 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 of the day To wit, for three hours; for there were reckoned twelve hours in their day. Probably they began to read after the morning sacrifice, at which time divers religious people used to be present, and continued reading till the sixth hour, that is, till midday; and another... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 9:1-35
Confession. The feast of tabernacles, held in such wise as Israel had not known since the days of Joshua ( Joshua 8:17 ), concluded, "according unto the manner" of that festival, with a " solemn assembly" on the eighth day ( Joshua 8:18 )—"the last day, that great day of the feast" ( John 7:37 ). After one day's interval, when nothing unusual was done, "on the twenty-fourth day of the month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting" (verse l), and a very great day was... read more