The seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers. — The change to “seed” has here a deep propriety. They carefully avoided the many aliens among them throughout this fast.
And stood and confessed. — It must be remembered that these verses give the programme of what is afterwards filled up: the very praise for which they “stood” was filled with confession.
Verse Nehemiah 9:2. _THE SEED OF ISRAEL SEPARATED THEMSELVES_] A reformation of this kind was begun by Ezra, Ezra 10:3; but it appears that either more were found out who had taken strange wives, or e...
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,...
STRANGERS. sons of the foreigner. SINS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
_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...
_the seed of Israel_ A more formal and poetical expression than -the children of Israel." It does not occur again in these books; but we find it in 2 Kings 17:20; 1 Chronicles 16:13; Psalms 22:23, and...
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...
_AND THE SEED OF ISRAEL SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM ALL STRANGERS, AND STOOD AND CONFESSED THEIR SINS, AND THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FATHERS._ Confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. N...
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....
So the people had the special holiday of the shelters in the 7th month of the year. It lasted from the 15th day of the month until the 22nd day (Nehemiah 8:14-18). It was a happy holiday. Two days la...
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...
וַ יִּבָּֽדְלוּ֙ זֶ֣רַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִ כֹּ֖ל...
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...
_Stranger; idolatrous women. (Haydock) --- True repentance requires the works of mortification, and particularly the removal of all occasions of sin and disorderly pleasures. (Worthington) --- The ref...
(1) В¶ Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. (2) And the seed of Israel separated themselves fro...
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...
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. Ver. 2. _And the seed of Israel_] Called Israelites (not Abrah...
_The seed of Israel separated themselves_ From all unnecessary society with the heathen, and particularly from those strange women whom some of them had married. For although Ezra had effected this se...
[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 REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE...
And the seed of Israel, the Jews of pure blood, SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM ALL STRANGERS, FOREIGNERS WHO HAD BECOME MIXED WITH THE JEWS BY MARRIAGE, AND STOOD AND CONFESSED THEIR SINS AND THE INIQUITIE...
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...
STRANGERS: _ Heb._ strange children...
1-3 The word will direct and quicken prayer, for by it the Spirit helps our infirmities in prayer. The careful study of God's word will more and more discover to us our own sinfulness, and the plenteo...
FROM ALL STRANGERS; from all familiar and unnecessary society with the heathens, and particularly from those strange women whom some of them had married. For though Ezra had done this formerly, EZR 10...
Nehemiah 9:2 Israelite H3478 lineage H2233 separated H914 (H8735) foreigners H1121 H5236 stood H5975 (H8799) confessed
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...
THE PEOPLE GATHER SPONTANEOUSLY TO ADMIT THEIR SINFULNESS AND FAILURES TO GOD SEPARATING THEMSELVES FROM ALL WHO WERE TAINTED WITH IDOLATRY (NEHEMIAH 9:1). Nehemiah 9:1 ‘Now on the twenty fourth day...
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...
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. ⇐...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 9:2 SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM ALL FOREIGNERS. See Ezra 9:1. Here it refers not just to marriage but also to the integrity of the community in general
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 John 1:7; Daniel 9:20; Daniel 9:3; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 9:15;...
Separated — From all unnecessary society with the Heathens, and particularly from those strange women whom some of them had married. For though Ezra had done this formerly, yet, it seems, there were s...