Nehemiah 9:5 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 9:5

Stand up - The people had knelt to confess and to worship God Nehemiah 9:3. They were now to take the proper attitude for praise. Compare throughout the margin reference. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 9:5

Nehemiah 9:5. Then the Levites, Jeshua, &c., said, Stand up, and bless the Lord for ever and ever Praise him and give him thanks, as long as you have any being; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise The super-excellent perfections of which, the noblest creatures cannot worthily magnify. The Levites, it is likely, praised him in these or such like words, in which all the people joined, either with their lips, or in their hearts. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 9:1-38

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 9:5

Levites. For these names, Compare Nehemiah 3:17 ; Nehemiah 7:43 ; Nehemiah 10:10 ; Nehemiah 12:8 , Nehemiah 12:24 .Ezra 2:40 ; Ezra 3:9 . Stand up, &c. One of the most glorious of all Doxologies. blessed be = let them bless. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Nehemiah 9:5

REHEARSAL OF GOD'S GREAT PROMISE TO ABRAHAM"Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up, and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise. Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, and all their host, the earth and all the things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 9:5

5. Then the Levites . . . said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God—If this prayer was uttered by all these Levites in common, it must have been prepared and adopted beforehand, perhaps, by Ezra; but it may only embody the substance of the confession and thanksgiving. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nehemiah 9:1-38

2. The prayer of the people ch. 9The people were not content to go about their business as usual after hearing the Word of God read. They realized they needed to hear more and to get right with God more completely. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nehemiah 9:5-38

The prayer of praise 9:5-38A second group of seven Levites (Nehemiah 9:5) led the people in the prayer of praise that Nehemiah included in this book, perhaps on a different day than the prayer he wrote about in Nehemiah 9:1-4."The prayer is intended to instruct the readers. It gives us a survey of the history of Israel with emphasis on certain events in the life of the Chosen People. This approach is comparable to that of Psalms 78, 105, 106, 135, , 136." [Note: Fensham, pp. 227-28.] It is... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 9:1-38

The Renewal of the Covenant4. Stairs] lit. ’ascent’: probably the pulpit of wood mentioned in Nehemiah 8:4. Bani.. Bani] One of the two names is probably an error for ’Binnui’: cp. Nehemiah 12:8.6. Thou, etc.] Before this LXX inserts ’And Ezra said.’ The prayer that follows first recalls God’s early mercies to the nation, the unworthy return made for such, the divine forbearance, the people’s renewed offences, and their consequent punishment; it next acknowledges the justice of the chastisement... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Nehemiah 9:5

(5) Hashabniah.—Not found elsewhere. No reason is given why this company is somewhat different from the former; the LXX. arbitrarily omit all names after Kadmiel. Similarly, they insert “and Ezra said” before Nehemiah 9:6. The psalm was perhaps composed by Ezra, but uttered by the Levites in the name of the congregation.Stand up and bless . . . Blessed be.—Or, let them bless.Thou, even thou, art Lord alone.—The three phrases mark how the address to the people glides into direct adoration of... read more