They stood upon the stairs Upon such stairs or pulpits as the Levites usually stood upon when they taught the people. But they stood upon several pulpits, each of them teaching that part of the congregation which was allotted him, or praying or blessing God with them. And cried with a loud voice Thereby testifying their deep sense of their sins and miseries, and their fervent and importunate desire of God's mercy.
The Septuagint and the Vulgate remove the comma after “stairs.” By the “stairs (or scaffold) of the Levites” is to be understood as an elevated platform from which they could the better address and le...
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,...
STAIRS. platform. Omit the comma. BANI, AND CHENANI. Some codices, with Septuagint, read "sons of Chenani"....
_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...
_upon the stairs_(Marg. Or, _scaffold) of the Levites_ R.V. UPON THE STAIRS OF THE LEVITES. According to a common but inaccurate punctuation of the A.V., _of the Levites_is applied to the list of name...
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...
_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._ Then stood up upon the...
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...
STAIRS, OF THE LEVITES. — _The scaffold of the Levites,_ without the comma: the steps of ascent to the pulpit of Ezra (Nehemiah 8:2). BANI, AND CHENANI. — Probably, _Binnui and Haman_ (Nehemiah 10:9)...
וַ יָּ֜קָם עַֽל ־מַֽעֲלֵ֣ה הַ לְוִיִּ֗ם יֵשׁ֨
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...
Step, erected by Esdras, chap. viii. 4. --- Josue, &c. These Levites are mentioned again, (ver. 5.) with some variation. Bani is called Bonni; Sebania, is Hasebnia. (Calmet) --- Perhaps some of them m...
(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 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. Ver. 4. _Then stood up...
[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...
The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness...
Then stood up upon the stairs, the platforms from which the people were usually addressed, OF THE LEVITES, JESHUA, AND BANI, KADMIEL, SHEBANIAH, BANI, SHEREBIAH, EANI, AND CHENANI, AND CRIED WITH A LO...
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...
STAIRS: Or, scaffold...
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...
UPON THE STAIRS, OF THE LEVITES, or, upon the scaffold, &c., i.e. upon such stairs, or rather scaffolds, or pulpits, as the Levites used to stand upon when they taught the people. But you must not thi...
Nehemiah 9:4 Jeshua H3442 Bani H1137 Kadmiel H6934 Shebaniah H7645 Bunni H1138 Sherebiah H8274 Bani H1137 Chenani H3662
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:19; Acts 7:60; John 11:43; Lamentations 3:8;...
Stairs — Upon such stairs, or pulpits, as the Levites used to stand upon, when they taught the people. But they stood upon several pulpits, each of them teaching that part of the congregation which wa...