Nehemiah 9:7

_THOU ART THE LORD THE GOD, WHO DIDST CHOOSE ABRAM, AND BROUGHTEST HIM FORTH OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES, AND GAVEST HIM THE NAME OF ABRAHAM;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....

4-38 The summary of their prayers we have here upon record. Much more, no doubt, was said. Whatever ability we have to do any thing in the way of duty, we are to serve and glorify God according to the utmost of it. When confessing our sins, it is good to notice the mercies of God, that we may be the more humbled and ashamed. The dealings of the Lord showed his goodness and long-suffering, and the hardness of their hearts. The testimony of the prophets was the testimony of the Spirit in the prophets, and it was the Spirit of Christ in them. They spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, and what they said is to be received accordingly. The result was, wonder at the Lord's mercies, and the feeling that sin had brought them to their present state, from which nothing but unmerited love could rescue them. And is not their conduct a specimen of human nature? Let us study the history of our...

Verse Nehemiah 9:7. _WHO DIDST CHOOSE ABRAM_] See the notes on the passages referred to in the margin. _THE NAME OF ABRAHAM_] For the explanation of this name, Genesis 17:5, Genesis 17:5....

EXPOSITION SOLEMN FAST KEPT, WITH CONFESSION OF SINS; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE, AND SEALED TO BY THE PRINCES, PRIESTS, AND LEVITES (Nehemiah 9:1.). When the law was first read to them on the opening day of the seventh month, the people had shown strong feelings of compunction, an earnest desire to return to God by the thorny way of repentance. In checking this feeling on that particular day, Ezra and Nehemia

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 humiliation and confession of sin took place. The assembled congregation fasted, with sackcloth and earth upon them. Separation was next. Evil confessed must mean evil put away. They separated themselves from all strangers, and after their confession they worshipped the Lord. Here again is the right order of a spiritual revival. Reading, hearing and believing the Word always comes first; humiliation, self-judgment, confession and true worship follow....

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, there followed a spontaneous outburst of self-condemnation on the part of the people, who were conscience-stricken on account of having hitherto neglected to observe the Law; they had clearly been desirous of expressing their sorrow before (see Nehemiah 8:9), but it would have been inappropriate during the feast. Fasting and prayerful confession were fitly followed (see next section) by a solemn act of resolution of amendment. Nehemiah 9:1. the twenty and fourth day: the second day after the celebration of the feast, _i.e._ in the seventh month (see...

CHOOSE ABRAM. Compare Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:1; Genesis 17:5.Joshua 24:1. ABRAHAM. See note on Genesis 17:5, and App-50. The letter (_He_). five. This is the number of _grace_ (App-10), put into the middle of the names (Abram and Sarai), as. symbol of the grace that called him. See App-50. for the repetition of five in its multiples all through his life....

The Patriarch Abraham; the choice, the call, the name, and the character of the man, and the covenant made with him _Thou_art _the Lord the God_ R.V. marg. -Or, _O Lord_", i.e. Thou, O Jahveh (Jehovah), art _the_God, as in 1 Kings 18:37. _didst choose Abram_ The Divine -choice" is only mentioned here in reference to the calling of Abraham. The selection of the -chosen people" was the free act of God's love. This thought lay at the root of the covenant relation between Him and Israel; cf. Deuteronomy 4:37, -and because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them," Nehemiah 7:7; Nehemia

3. God is exalted for His goodness to Abraham. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 9:7-8 7 Thou art the LORD God, Who chose Abram And brought him out from Ur of the Chaldees, And gave him the name Abraham. 8 And Thou didst find his heart faithful before Thee, And didst make a covenant with him To give him the land of the Canaanite, Of the Hittite and the Amorite, Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite To give it to his descendants. And Thou hast fulfilled Thy promise, For Thou art righteous. COMMENT History was of great significance to Israel's religion. The people believed, on good authority, that they could see evidence of God's taking action in their affairs in actual observed events. Faith, in Scripture terms, is always rooted in history. Judaism and Christianity alone are regarded as historical religio

9:7 Same, (c-4) Or 'Thou art He,' an expression which is really a name of God. see Deuteronomy 32:39 ....