Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 8:15
Verse 15. Fetch olive branches] For every thing concerning this feast of tabernacles, see the notes on Lev. xxiii., and the other places there referred to.
Verse 15. Fetch olive branches] For every thing concerning this feast of tabernacles, see the notes on Lev. xxiii., and the other places there referred to.
THE MOUNT - The “mount of Olives” is probably intended. PINE BRANCHES - Rather, “branches of the wild olive.” The actual trees named by the Law may have become scarce. It was probably considered that...
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,...
MOUNT. hill country. AS IT IS WRITTEN. See Leviticus 23:42....
_and that they should publish and proclaim … saying_ In Leviticus 23:1; Leviticus 23:4 the children of Israel are commanded to -proclaim the set feasts of the Lord." The actual words of this verse are...
AND THAT THEY SHOULD PUBLISH AND PROCLAIM— _Which when they heard, they sent preachers into all the cities, and into Jerusalem, saying, Go forth,_ &c. Houbigant. _FETCH OLIVE-BRANCHES,_ &C.— See Sche...
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 THAT THEY SHOULD PUBLISH AND PROCLAIM IN ALL THEIR CITIES, AND IN JERUSALEM, SAYING, GO FORTH UNTO THE MOUNT, AND FETCH OLIVE BRANCHES, AND PINE BRANCHES, AND MYRTLE BRANCHES, AND PALM BRANCHES,...
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 MOUNT] better, 'the hill-country.' PINE BRANCHES] RV 'branches of wild olives' (or oleaster)....
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...
SAYING. — There is no such command in Leviticus; the Septuagint inserts, _“_And Ezra spake.” But it is better to adopt Houbigant’s slight emendation of the text, which thus runs: “And when they heard...
(13-18) The Feast of Tabernacles....
וַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יַשְׁמִ֗יעוּ וְ יַעֲבִ֨ירוּ קֹ֥ול...
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 that. This is not expressed in the law, though it was probably practised. (Calmet) --- Some translate, "And they proclaimed," &c. (Vatable) --- Beautiful. Literally, "very or most beautiful." (Ha...
(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 that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, a...
_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 that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, the range of which the Mount of Olives was the highest, AND FETCH OLIVE-BRANCHES, AND P...
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...
AND THAT THEY SHOULD PUBLISH, i.e. and they found this also written, which is to be supplied out of the former verse, that they should, &c., which, though it be not particularly required, so as is exp...
Nehemiah 8:15 announce H8085 (H8686) proclaim H5674 (H8686) H6963 cities H5892 Jerusalem H3389 saying H559 ...
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...
_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. ⇐...
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 16:16; Genesis 8:11; John 12:13; Judges 9:48; Judges 9:49;...
Mount — The mount of Olives, which was next Jerusalem, and stored with olive — branches, and probably with the rest: for these trees seem to have been planted hereabouts principally, for the use of th...