George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nehemiah 8:17
Done so, with such alacrity, though they had displayed more magnificence. See the meaning of similar expressions, 4 Kings xxiii. 22. (Calmet)
Done so, with such alacrity, though they had displayed more magnificence. See the meaning of similar expressions, 4 Kings xxiii. 22. (Calmet)
Verse Nehemiah 8:17. _SINCE THE DAYS OF JOSHUA_] No feast of tabernacles since Joshua's time had been so heartily and so piously celebrated. The story of the _sacred fire_ now discovered, which had b...
It is not the intention of the writer to state that the Feast of tabernacles had not been kept from the time of Joshua until this occasion (see 1 Kings 8:2, 1 Kings 8:65; Ezra 3:4); but that there had...
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,...
JESHUA. Another spelling of Joshua. NOT... DONE SO. 2 Chronicles 8:13 speaks only of the offerings required by the Law, which Solomon offered. Nothing is said _th_. _r_. of what the People did; so th...
_that were come again out of the captivity_ Compare for this expression Ezra 6:21, -the children of Israel, which were come again out of the captivity" (_haggôlah_). Here the word for -captivity" is _...
SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA THE SON OF NUN, &C.— It can hardly be thought that this festival had never been observed since Jeshua's time, because we read in the book of Ezra, that it was kept at their re...
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...
_AND ALL THE CONGREGATION OF THEM THAT WERE COME AGAIN OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY MADE BOOTHS, AND SAT UNDER THE BOOTHS: FOR SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA THE SON OF NUN UNTO THAT DAY HAD NOT THE CHILDREN OF ISR...
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)....
SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA] i.e. of Joshua. The exceptional feature in this observance of the ancient Feast of Tabernacles seems to have been the dwelling in 'booths,' though the dwelling in 'tents' had...
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...
(13-18) The Feast of Tabernacles....
THE CHILDREN OF THE CAPTIVITY. — The pathos of this designation is evident here. DONE SO. — Though the feast had been kept (1 Kings 8; Ezra 3), it had never thus been kept with universal dwelling in...
וַ יַּֽעֲשׂ֣וּ כָֽל ־הַ֠ קָּהָל הַ שָּׁבִ֨ים
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...
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the (i) days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of...
(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...
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Isra...
_Since the days of Jeshua, had not the children of Israel done_ so The meaning here cannot be that this festival had never been observed since Joshua's time, because we are informed, (Ezra 3:4,) that...
[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....
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths, they lived in them during the week of the festival; FOR SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA, THE S...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES...
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...
FOR SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA, or, _surely_ since the days, as the Hebrew _chi_ is oft used, as hath been noted before. For the following words seem not so much to give a reason of what was last said o...
Nehemiah 8:17 assembly H6951 returned H7725 (H8802) captivity H7628 made H6213 (H8799) booths H5521 sat H3427 ...
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...
FOR SINCE THE DAYS OF JESHUA It is not meant that there had not been some formal observance of the feast of tabernacles (cf) (2 Chronicles 8:13); (Ezekiel 3:4), but that the people had not dwelt in b...
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. ⇐...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 8:17 JESHUA is another form of “Joshua.” HAD NOT DONE SO. Although the Feast of Booths had been celebrated on occasion (see...
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...
1 Chronicles 29:22; 2 Chronicles 30:21; 2 Chronicles 30:26; 2 Chronicles 35:18;...
Done so — So, as to the manner and circumstances. They never kept this feast so joyfully, having not only the same causes of rejoicing which they formerly had, but special causes to increase their joy...
Was this feast not celebrated since Joshua’s time or was it celebrated later by Zerubbabel? PROBLEM: According to this passage, the Feast of Tabernacles had not been celebrated by Israel “since the d...