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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...
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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,...
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STRANGERS. sons of the foreigner.
SINS. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44....
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_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...
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_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...
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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
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Now on the twenty...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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 CON...
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וַ יִּבָּֽדְלוּ֙ זֶ֣רַע יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
מִ כֹּ֖ל...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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[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...
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THE REPENTANCE OF THE PEOPLE...
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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...
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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...
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STRANGERS:
_ Heb._ strange children...
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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...
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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...
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Nehemiah 9:2 Israelite H3478 lineage H2233 separated H914 (H8735)
foreigners H1121 H5236 stood H5975 (H8799) confessed
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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
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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...
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EXPOSITION
SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH
GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO...
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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...
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1 John 1:7; Daniel 9:20; Daniel 9:3; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 9:15;...
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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...