Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Nehemiah 8:1
CONTENTS
This is an interesting chapter, for it records the solemn manner in which Nehemiah caused the law to be read in the presence of the people.
CONTENTS
This is an interesting chapter, for it records the solemn manner in which Nehemiah caused the law to be read in the presence of the people.
CHAPTER VIII _Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Levites, read and interpret the laws_ _to the people_, 1-7. _The manner in which they do this important work_, 8. _The effect produced on the people's minds b...
THE STREET - Rather, “the square” or “court.” So in Nehemiah 8:16 (compare Ezra 10:9). The court seems to have been one between the eastern gate of the temple and the watergate in the city-wall. It wo...
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...
PART IV (Nehemiah 7:73_ b_ - Nehemiah 10:39). EZRA AND THE LAW. Nehemiah 7:73 b - Nehemiah 8:12. The Reading of the Law.
READING OF THE LAW.-- Nehemiah 8:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT. --_ So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading._. Nehemiah 8:8. TIME. --B...
AND. Then. STREET. broad or open space. See verses: Nehemiah 8:3; Nehemiah 8:16, Neh 8:26. Nehemiah 12:30; Nehemiah 12:37;...
_into the street_ R.V. INTO THE BROAD PLACE. The open space in front of -the water-gate" is probably the same as that mentioned in Ezra 10:9, -and all the people sat in the broad place before the hous...
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...
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 ALL THE PEOPLE GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AS ONE MAN INTO THE STREET THAT WAS BEFORE THE WATER GATE; AND THEY SPAKE UNTO EZRA THE SCRIBE TO BRING THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH THE LORD HA...
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...
The people had finished the work on the walls of Jerusalem in the 6th month of the year (Nehemiah 6:15). The people had worked hard for 52 days. But Nehemiah had not finished his work. His next task w...
AS ONE MAN. — The unanimity rather than the number is emphatic here. AND THEY SPAKE UNTO EZRA. — Who appears in this book for the first time, having probably been at the court for twelve years....
וַ יֵּאָסְפ֤וּ כָל ־הָ עָם֙ כְּ אִ֣ישׁ
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...
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the (a) scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LO...
Were in, or had been at home, (Haydock) after the dedication of the walls, (Calmet) till they assembled (Haydock) at the beginning of the civil year, on the feast of trumpets, which was a day of rejoi...
_A NOTABLE CONGREGATION_ ‘All the people gathered themselves together as one man.’ Nehemiah 8:1 I. THIS CHAPTER PORTRAYS A GREAT CONGREGATION.—All Jerusalem gathered to hearken to the commandments...
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 all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that [was] before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD h...
_Into the street that was before the water-gate_ Probably, in that space which was afterward called the court of the Gentiles. _They spake unto Ezra the scribe_ This Ezra, without all doubt, is the sa...
[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....
THE LAW READ AND HEARD...
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man, with entire unanimity of mind, INTO THE STREET THAT WAS BEFORE THE WATER GATE, a large open square near the subterranean water galleries of...
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...
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...
NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 8 Ezra bringeth and expoundeth the law of Moses, and blesseth God with the people, NEHEMIAH 8:1. Nehemiah and Ezra comfort the people, NEHEMIAH 8:9. The people's forwardness to hear a...
Nehemiah 8:1 people H5971 together H622 (H8735) one H259 man H376 square H7339 front H6440 Water H4325 Gate...
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...
THE READING AND EXPLAINING OF THE LAW (NEHEMIAH 8:1). The first stage of covenant renewal was the reading and explaining of the Law. Such reading and explaining of a section of the Law may well have t...
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...
_And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street._ THE INSTRUCTOR IN THE LAW God has evermore blessed His own Word as the chosen instrument of all revival and progress in H...
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...
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...
PART II. ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AMONG THE JEWS UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF NEHEMIAH. EXPOSITION RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF...
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...
2 Chronicles 34:15; Ezra 3:1; Ezra 7:11; Ezra 7:6; Isaiah 8:20;...