Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Nehemiah 8:5
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was (d) above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
(d) So that his voice might be heard the better.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was (d) above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
(d) So that his voice might be heard the better.
Verse Nehemiah 8:5. _ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD UP_] This was out of respect to the sacred word: in imitation of this, when the _gospel_ for the day is read in our churches, all the people stand up....
STOOD UP - The attitude of attention and respect. Compare the existing practice of the Christian Church at the reading of the Gospel for the day....
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...
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WHEN HE OPENED IT ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD UP. This is. significant statement. When the Holy Book was opened the people arose in respect and attention. Compare this profound reverence of the word of the L...
OPENED THE BOOK. unrolled the scroll. IN THE SIGHT. before the eyes. STOOD UP. In token of reverence (Judges 3:20; Job 29:8; Job 37:14)....
Nehemiah 7:73; Nehemiah 7:73. The Reading of the Law This verse begins a new section in the work. The style alters. The use of the first pers. sing. is resumed in Nehemiah 12:31. The Compiler has rec...
_opened_ i.e. unrolled, cf. Luke 4:17. _above all the people_ i.e. raised above them in his pulpit. _all the people stood up_ We need not conclude from these words that they stood during the whole ti...
DISCOURSE: 445 EFFECT OF EZRA’S PREACHING Nehemiah 8:5. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: and...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT II. The Law is Read in Public, and its Ceremonies are Resumed: Chapter s 8-10 A. The Law is Read and the Feast of Booths is Kept. 1. Ezra instructs the people in the L...
_AND EZRA OPENED THE BOOK IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE; (FOR HE WAS ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLE;) AND WHEN HE OPENED IT, ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD UP:_ When he opened it, all the people stood up. This, attitud...
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 *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...
When Ezra started to read the law, all the people stood up. They wanted to give honour to God. Then Ezra praised God and the people agreed with him. Then they turned their faces to the ground. This wa...
וַ יִּפְתַּ֨ח עֶזְרָ֤א הַ סֵּ֨פֶר֙ לְ עֵינֵ֣י
THE LAW Nehemiah 8:1 THE fragmentary nature of the chronicler's work is nowhere more apparent than in that portion of it which treats of the events immediately following on the completion of the fort...
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...
_Stood, out of respect, as we do while the gospel is read. See Numbers xxiii. 18. (Calmet)_...
(3) And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people we...
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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 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up: Ver. 5. _And Ezra opened the book_] God's Book; not Aristot...
_When he opened it, all the people stood up_ Either in reverence to God's word, or that they might hear his words more distinctly. _And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God_ He blessed him as _the gre...
[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 Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, unrolling the parchment as he progressed with his reading; ( FOR HE WAS ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLE;) AND WHEN HE OPENED IT, ALL THE PEOPLE STOOD UP....
THE LAW READ AND HEARD...
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...
SIGHT: _ Heb._ eyes...
1-8 Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as acceptably performed in one place as in another. Masters of familie...
Either in reverence to God's word, of which see NUMBERS 11:32 JUDGES 3:20; or that they might hear his words the more distinctly: or rather, because they observed that Ezra composed himself to prayer...
Nehemiah 8:5 Ezra H5830 opened H6605 (H8799) book H5612 sight H5869 people H5971 people H5971 opened H6605 ...
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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...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 8:3 FROM EARLY MORNING UNTIL MIDDAY. The book was lengthy, and there may have been frequent pauses for explanation (see note on v. 7). OPENED THE BOOK. T
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1 Kings 8:14; Judges 3:20; Luke 4:16; Luke 4:17...