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The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 10:36

The first-born of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law . See Exodus 22:29 ; Exodus 34:19 . The firstborn children were to be "redeemed." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 10:37

The first-fruits of our dough . See Numbers 15:18-21 . And our offerings . Literally, "our heave offerings" ( Numbers 15:20 ; Le Numbers 23:11 , Numbers 23:17 ). To the chambers of the house . The store-chambers attached to the temple-building (see Nehemiah 13:4 , Nehemiah 13:5 ). The tithes of our ground . As with the law of first-fruits, so with that of tithes (which was more burthensome), there had grown up a practice of neglecting it on the part of many, if not of all.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 10:35

Nehemiah 10:35. And to bring in the first-fruits That is, they took an oath to do it; for this is to be understood, and not that they cast lots about it, as they did about the wood-offering mentioned in the foregoing verse. All the particulars of the first-fruits are exactly and distinctly mentioned, that none might pretend ignorance when they withheld any part of the priests’ dues, which, at that time especially, the people were very prone to do, through poverty, or covetousness, or... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 10:37-38

Nehemiah 10:37-38. That the Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage That is, the tithes of all the fruits of the ground belonging to our several cities. And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites As the people gave the tithe of their land to the Levites, so the Levites gave a tithe of their tithes to the priests. And it is here ordered, that when the people brought them to the Levites, one of the priests should be present to inspect them, and to see... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:1-39

Israel’s confession and oath (9:1-10:39)Two days after the end of the Feast of Tabernacles (which lasted from the fifteenth day to the twenty-second day of the month; see 8:18; Leviticus 23:34), the people reassembled for another reading of the law. After this came a time of confession and worship led by the Levites (9:1-5).The prayer began by exalting God as the great Creator, and by praising him for choosing Abraham and making his covenant with him (6-8). God was faithful to his people... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:37

offerings = heave offerings. See App-43 . wine = new wine. Hebrew. tirosh. App-27 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 10:35

29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, c.—This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that they abstain from contracting matrimonial alliances with the heathen that they would rigidly observe the sabbath; that they would let the land... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nehemiah 10:1-39

3. The renewed commitment of the people ch. 10Nehemiah explained the agreement he previously referred to in Nehemiah 9:38 in this chapter. Conviction of sin (ch. 8) led to confession of sin (ch. 9) and resulted in a covenant with God (ch. 10)."Nehemiah 10, despite its forbidding portal of 27 verses of proper names, is in reality a small treasure house of post-exilic interpretations of earlier Israelite law." [Note: David Clines, "Nehemiah 10 as an Example of Early Jewish Biblical Exegesis,"... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nehemiah 10:28-39

The pledge to keep the Law 10:28-39The rest of the restoration community joined those who signed their names pledging to obey the Mosaic Law (Nehemiah 10:28-29). The "curse" they took on themselves was submission to the curse that God promised would come on those who did not keep His Word (Nehemiah 10:29; Deuteronomy 28:15-68). "Law" (Heb. torah) refers to all God’s instructions, "commandments" are His rules, "ordinances" are His judicial pronouncements, and "statutes" are His permanent decrees... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:1-39

List of Those Who Participated in the Covenant1. Now those that sealed were] The names that follow ZidMjah’s are those of families whose living representatives sealed on behalf of their houses. Several of these family names occur in the list of those who accompanied Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (Nehemiah 12). Zidkijah] The fact that his name is coupled with Nehemiah’s suggests that he was a person of importance, but nothing is known of him.29. To walk in God’s law, etc.] The enactments of the Law... read more

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