Nehemiah 8

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Nehemiah 8

Nehemiah 8 THEN, AS THE last verse of the chapter tells us, came the seventh month; and chapter 8 opens with the record of how the people were gathered together in the street before the water gate. Ezra the priest had been in Jerusalem for a number of years, but he now was called upon to bring the book of the law of the Lord and read it publicly before both men and women, and indeed before all who could understand it, which must have meant even children of maturer years. The word of God... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Nehemiah 8:1-99

Nehemiah 8 THEN, AS THE last verse of the chapter tells us, came the seventh month; and chapter 8 opens with the record of how the people were gathered together in the street before the water gate. Ezra the priest had been in Jerusalem for a number of years, but he now was called upon to bring the book of the law of the Lord and read it publicly before both men and women, and indeed before all who could understand it, which must have meant even children of maturer years. The word of God... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Nehemiah 8:1-8

The Law Read and Heard v. 1. 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 Ophel; and they spake unto Ezra, the scribe, who had come to Jerusalem some thirteen years before with about three thousand returned exiles, to bring the book of the Law of Moses which the Lord had commanded to Israel. Ezra may have returned to Babylon after... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Nehemiah 8:9-18

The Feast of Tabernacles v. 9. And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, he being the governor of Judea under appointment from the Persian king, and Ezra, the priest, the scribe, the learned doctor of priestly descent, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord, your God; mourn not nor weep, they were to give no evidence of mourning, deeply as they were affected by the reading, for this would have disturbed the holiness of the day. For all... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Nehemiah 8:1-18

Nehemiah 8:1-181And 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 had commanded to Israel. 2And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding [that understood in hearing] upon the first day of the seventh month. 3And he read therein before the street that was before the... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:1-9

Nehemiah READING THE LAW WITH TEARS AND JOY Neh_8:1 - Neh_8:12 . The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, which was the sixth month. The events recorded in this passage took place on the first day of the seventh month. The year is not given, but the natural inference is that it was the same as that of the finishing of the wall; namely, the twentieth of Artaxerxes. If so, the completion of the fortifications to which Nehemiah had set himself, was immediately followed... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:10

Nehemiah READING THE LAW WITH TEARS AND JOY THE JOY OF THE LORD Neh_8:10 . Judaism, in its formal and ceremonial aspect, was a religion of gladness. The feast was the great act of worship. It is not to be wondered at, that Christianity, the perfecting of that ancient system, has been less markedly felt to be a religion of joy; for it brings with it far deeper and more solemn views about man in his nature, condition, responsibilities, destinies, than ever prevailed before, under any system... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:11-12

Nehemiah READING THE LAW WITH TEARS AND JOY Neh_8:1 - Neh_8:12 . The wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, which was the sixth month. The events recorded in this passage took place on the first day of the seventh month. The year is not given, but the natural inference is that it was the same as that of the finishing of the wall; namely, the twentieth of Artaxerxes. If so, the completion of the fortifications to which Nehemiah had set himself, was immediately followed... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Nehemiah 8:1-18

New Light from God’s Law Nehemiah 8:1-18 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 dawn till the scorching noon? What reverence for the Word! When Ezra opened the Book, all the people stood up . What holy worship! When he blessed the great God, all the people answered, Amen, amen! What a model to us all! They gave the sense, so that they understood . What searching of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 8:1-18

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 as to why he has not been mentioned before. It may be that he was absent from Jerusalem during the earlier part of the work of Nehemiah, or it may be-which perhaps is more probable-that the work already done was such as he had no direct part in, and that now he appeared in co-operation with... read more

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Nehemiah 8

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Nehemiah 8:1-99

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Nehemiah 8:1-8

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Nehemiah 8:9-18

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Nehemiah 8:1-18

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:1-9

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:10

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Nehemiah 8:11-12

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Nehemiah 8:1-18

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 8:1-18

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