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The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 10:30

That we would not give our daughters , etc. On the recurrence of the mixed marriages so soon after the reformation of Ezra, see the comment on Nehemiah 13:23 . read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 10:29

Nehemiah 10:29. They clave to their brethren, their nobles The commonalty owned and ratified what the nobles had done in their names, declaring their assent to it by their words, or by lifting up of their hands, as the manner was. Great men never look so great as when they encourage religion, and are examples of it: and they would by that, as much as any thing, make an interest in the most valuable of their inferiors, who would cleave to them closer than they can imagine. Observe, their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 10:30

Nehemiah 10:30. And that we would not give our daughters Namely, in marriage. Having sworn obedience to God’s laws in the general, they now specify some particular instances, wherein they had lately transgressed, or were most prone to transgress. In our covenants with God, we should engage particularly against those sins that we have been most frequently overtaken in and injured by. 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 10:29

given. See App-47 . Moses the servant of God. The first four occurrences of this expression in the Hebrew Bible. See Dan 9:11 . 1 Chronicles 6:49 , 2 Chronicles 24:9 . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . our Lord. Hebrew our Adonai. App-4 . = our sovereign Lord. Compare Psalms 8:1 , Psalms 8:9 . statutes. See note on Deuteronomy 4:1 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 10:29

Nehemiah 10:29. And entered into a curse, and into an oath— 1:e. An oath under a conditional execration. Houbigant renders it, ut jus jurandum juremus, that we may take an oath. He supposes this verse to be connected with the preceding one, and accordingly renders it thus: Their nobles promising for their brethren, we come to enter into an oath, that we will walk, &c. REFLECTIONS.—1st, As in prayer they had engaged to join themselves anew to God, we have here the persons who subscribed, and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 10:29

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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