Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 9:5
Stand up - The people had knelt to confess and to worship God Nehemiah 9:3. They were now to take the proper attitude for praise. Compare throughout the margin reference.
Stand up - The people had knelt to confess and to worship God Nehemiah 9:3. They were now to take the proper attitude for praise. Compare throughout the margin reference.
Verse Nehemiah 9:5. _STAND UP AND BLESS THE LORD YOUR GOD_] It is the shameless custom of many congregations of people to sit still while they profess to bless and praise God, by singing the _Psalms_...
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 h...
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,...
LEVITES. For these names, Compare Nehemiah 3:17; Nehemiah 7:43; Nehemiah 10:10; Nehemiah 12:8;...
_a_. The Day of National Humiliation, and its religious services It must be admitted that, if the Great Day of Atonement were observed at this time, it is strange that its occurrence in this month wa...
_Then_ As in Nehemiah 9:4, the -copula"; no very exact sequence of time is implied. _Hashabniah … Hodijah_ R.V. HASHABNEIAH … HODIAH. The Levitical names of the previous verse appear here with some va...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT B. The Levites lead in a psalm of confession. 1. Introduction: The occasion on which the prayer was offered is described. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:1-5 a 1 Now on the twenty...
2. God is praised for His power in creation. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:5 b - NEHEMIAH 9:6 5b O may Thy glorious name be blessed And exalted above all blessing and praise! 6 Thou alone art the LORD. Thou...
_THEN THE LEVITES, JESHUA, AND KADMIEL, BANI, HASHABNIAH, SHEREBIAH, HODIJAH, SHEBANIAH, AND PETHAHIAH, SAID, STAND UP AND BLESS THE LORD YOUR GOD FOR EVER AND EVER: AND BLESSED BE THY GLORIOUS NAME,...
9:5 eternity. (b-23) See 1 Chronicles 16:36 ; Psalms 41:13 ; Psalms 106:48 ; Daniel 2:20 ....
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....
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...
Some *Levites led the people to pray to God. Other *Levites led the people to *worship and to praise God. They remembered that God has always lived. He was not born and he will not die. He made every...
HASHABNIAH. — Not found elsewhere. No reason is given why this company is somewhat different from the former; the LXX. arbitrarily omit all names after Kadmiel. Similarly, they insert “and Ezra said”...
וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ הַ לְוִיִּ֡ם יֵשׁ֣וּעַ וְ֠ קַדְ
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...
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...
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...
_To eternity. Existing. (Sa) --- Bless him continually. (Menochius) --- Let one generation after another praise his holy name. (Haydock)_...
(4) В¶ Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God. (5) Then the Levit...
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...
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 f...
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, [and] Pethahiah, said, Stand up [and] bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious nam...
_Then the Levites, Jeshua, &c., said, Stand up, and bless the Lord for ever and ever_ Praise him and give him thanks, as long as you have any being; _and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted...
[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...
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, following an order of worship which had been arranged beforehand, STAND UP AND BLESS THE LO...
The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness...
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 shou...
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...
THEN THE LEVITES SAID all the following words. Either therefore they all used the same words, being composed and agreed upon by Ezra and themselves; or they all prayed in the same manner, and to the s...
Nehemiah 9:5 Levites H3881 Jeshua H3442 Kadmiel H6934 Bani H1137 Hashabniah H2813 Sherebiah H8274 Hodijah H1941 Shebaniah...
THE CRY OF THE LEVITES TO GOD ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE (NEHEMIAH 9:4). What follows was presumably the culmination of the three hours of confession and worship, and was a summing up in prayer by the ch...
THE CHIEF LEVITES WHO LED THE CONFESSION, WORSHIP AND INTERCESSION (NEHEMIAH 9:4). In Nehemiah 9:4 we presumably have a list of the princes of the Levites, who took their stand on the stairs of the Le...
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...
Nehemiah 9:5 Notice: I. The tablets on which this glory is inscribed. (1) God's glory is conspicuously written on the tablet of His works: (a) in their vastness; (_b_) in their harmony; (_c_) in thei...
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. CONCLUSION...
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. Nehem...
_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...
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. ⇐...
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...
EXPOSITION SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO...
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 pictures...
1 Chronicles 29:11; 1 Chronicles 29:13; 1 Chronicles 29:20; 1 Kings 8:14;...