The Feast of tabernacles had fallen into abeyance either entirely, or as regarded the dwelling in booths Nehemiah 8:17, since the time when it was kept by Zerubbabel Ezra 3:4. It is evident that the observance of the Law, impossible during the captivity, was restored slowly and with difficulty after the return.
Verse 14. _IN THE FEAST OF THE SEVENTH MONTH_] That is, the _feast of tabernacles_, which was held in commemoration of the sojourning of their fathers in the wilderness after they had been delivered f...
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,...
FOUND: i.e. they came to the place where direction was given. WRITTEN. See note on Exodus 17:14, and App-47. CHILDREN. sons. BOOTHS. Compare Lev 28:39-43.Deuteronomy 16:13....
_And they found written_ The passages in the Pentateuch relating to the Feast of Tabernacles are Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:39-43; Numbers 29:12-38;...
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...
_THEN HE SAID UNTO THEM, GO YOUR WAY, EAT THE FAT, AND DRINK THE SWEET, AND SEND PORTIONS UNTO THEM FOR WHOM NOTHING IS PREPARED: FOR THIS DAY IS HOLY UNTO OUR LORD: NEITHER BE YE SORRY; FOR THE JOY O...
SHOULD DWELL IN BOOTHS] This command in connexion with the Feast of Tabernacles (kept on the fifteenth day of the seventh month) occurs only in Leviticus 23:42....
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 people wanted to hear God’s law again the next day. This time the leaders of the families came to hear what was in the book of the law. Ezra and the priests and the *Levites helped the people to s...
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...
(13-18) The Feast of Tabernacles....
וַֽ יִּמְצְא֖וּ כָּת֣וּב בַּ † תֹּורָ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר...
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...
(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 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: Ver. 14. _And they found written in the...
_And they found written in the law_ Upon Ezra's information, and through their discourse with him; _that the children of Israel should dwell in booths_ As a memorial of their dwelling in tents 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....
And they found written in the Law which the Lord had commanded by Moses, namely, in Leviticus 23:34; Deuteronomy 16:13, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHOULD DWELL IN BOOTHS IN THE FEAST OF THE SEVENTH M...
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...
BY: _ Heb._ by the hand of...
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...
THEY FOUND, upon Ezra's information, and their discourse with him....
Nehemiah 8:14 found H4672 (H8799) written H3789 (H8803) Law H8451 LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8765) by...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 16:13; Genesis 33:17; John 7:2; Leviticus 23:34;...