George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nehemiah 8:16
House, which was flat. (Haydock) --- The tents might be erected in any place; in the open air. (Tirinus)
House, which was flat. (Haydock) --- The tents might be erected in any place; in the open air. (Tirinus)
Verse 16. _UPON THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE_] It need scarcely be repeated, that the houses in the East are generally built with _flat roofs_. On these they reposed; on these they took the air in the heats...
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...
CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. The further reading of the Law and its more minute study show that this is just the time at which the Feast of Tabernacles ought to be celebrated; the people,...
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), to mark the minuteness of the obedience. ONE. man. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14....
_So the people went forth_ There were 13 days before the feast, in which to make preparations. _upon the roof of his house_ For the use put to the flat roofs of houses in the East cf. Jos 2:6; 1 Samu...
3. The Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths, is rediscovered. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 8:13-18 13 Then on the second day the heads of fathers-' households of all the people, the priests, and the Levites were gath...
_SO THE PEOPLE WENT FORTH, AND BROUGHT THEM, AND MADE THEMSELVES BOOTHS, EVERY ONE UPON THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE, AND IN THEIR COURTS, AND IN THE COURTS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND IN THE STREET OF THE WATE...
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)....
THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE] This was flat, and available for walking or sleeping: cp. Deuteronomy 22:8; 1 Samuel 9:25; 2 Samuel 11:2; 2 Samuel 1
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...
When the people learned about the holiday of the shelters they wanted to obey God. So they collected branches, which they used to build shelters. And they lived in the shelters as God had told them to...
AND IN THEIR COURTS. — Not only on the roofs, but in the internal courtyards. OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. — The ministers of the Temple made these; and strangers to Jerusalem made them in the streets or ope...
(13-18) The Feast of Tabernacles....
וַ יֵּצְא֣וּ הָ עָם֮ וַ יָּבִיאוּ֒ וַ
THE JOY OF THE LORD Nehemiah 8:9 "ALL the people wept when they heard the words of the law." Was it for this mournful end that Ezra had studied the sacred law and guarded it through the long years of...
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...
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...
So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the (h) roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the...
(14) And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: (15) And that they should publish an...
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...
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...
So the people went forth, and brought [them], and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the wat...
_Every one upon the roof of his house_ Which, according to the law, was made flat, Deuteronomy 22:8. _And in their courts_ Those belonging to their houses: for the booths might be made anywhere in the...
[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....
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, Deuteronomy 16:13, EVERY ONE UPON THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE, the roofs of Oriental houses being flat, AND IN THEIR COURTS, AND IN TH...
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...
13-18 They found written in the law about the feast of tabernacles. Those who diligently search the Scriptures, find things written there which they have forgotten. This feast of tabernacles was a re...
BOOTHS UPON THE ROOF OF HIS HOUSE; for the houses there were made flat; of which SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 22:8". IN THEIR COURTS, belonging to their own houses; for these might be any where in the op...
Nehemiah 8:16 people H5971 out H3318 (H8799) brought H935 (H8686) made H6213 (H8799) booths H5521 one...
OCCURRENCES ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH (NEHEMIAH 8:13). The Feast of Trumpets being over, the majority of the people returned home in order to fulfil their daily work responsibilities, mai...
THEIR OBSERVANCE OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES (NEHEMIAH 8:16). The passage now jumps from the second day to the fifteenth day of the month, when the people having gathered their branches, assembled onc...
THE READING AND EXPLAINING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE LAW OF MOSES AND A REVIEW OF THEIR PAST HISTORY, LEADS TO THEM ESTABLISHING A RENEWAL OF THEIR COVENANT WITH GOD (NEHEMIAH 8:1 TO NEHEMIAH 10:39). Regar...
THE LAW OF MOSES IS READ AND EXPLAINED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE FEASTS OF THE SEVENTH MONTH (NEHEMIAH 8:1). The final words that closed off the list of returnees formed a suitable preface to what Neh...
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...
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...
_So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths _ THE CELEBRATION OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES I. We are reminded here that there is such a thing as buried truth. True reforma...
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...
NEHEMIAH 8:13 The People Keep the Feast of Booths. This family-oriented festival highlighted God’s protection of Israel in the desert, before the conquest of Canaan. ⇐...
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...
EXPOSITION NEHEMIAH 8:13 AND ON THE SECOND DAY WERE GATHERED TOGETHER THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS. At times it is true that "increase of appetite doth grow by what it feeds on." Once let the sweetness o...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:5; 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Kings 14:13; 2 Samuel 11:2;...