The Biblical Illustrator - Nehemiah 8:1-12
Nehemiah 8:1-12And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street.The instructor in the lawGod has evermore blessed His own Word as the chosen instrument of all revival and progress in His Church. It was in this faith of the power of Bible truth in the hand of the Holy Spirit that Nehemiah here sought to instruct the remnant of Judah in the Divine law. His past labours for the good of Jerusalem had chiefly tended to inspire his brethren with patriotic love, and to... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 8:1-18
Nehemiah 8:2 . Upon the first day of the seventh month, the day when the civil year began, reckoned from the creation of the world. Ezra began the year, like Adam, with a holy convocation. He, and others succeeding him, read with loud voices, and the Amens of the people made loud echoes in the courts. Nehemiah 8:8 . They read in the book, the Hebrew of Moses, and gave the sense in the Chaldaic language, which from thence was the language of the country; but so mixed with Hebrew and... read more