Nehemiah 10:28-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nehemiah 10:1-31

When Israel was first brought into covenant with God it was done by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, Exod. 24:1-8 But here it was done by the more natural and common way of sealing and subscribing the written articles of the covenant, which bound them to no more than was already their duty. Now here we have, I. The names of those public persons who, as the representatives and heads of the congregation, set their hands and seals to this covenant, because it would have been an endless... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people ,.... That did not sign and seal: the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims ; the porters and singers were Levites; but those so called were such as waited upon the priests, as the Nethinims were persons that waited on them: and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God ; proselytes, who had renounced Heathenism, and embraced the true religion, had received the law of God, and professed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:29

They clave to their brethren, their nobles ,.... Who had signed and sealed the covenant, they declared their approbation of it, attended to it, and ratified what they had done in their name: and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God ; they bound themselves with an oath that they would keep the law of God, and added a curse or imprecation on themselves to it should they break it; or, according to Piscator, they went into... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:30

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons ,.... Intermarry with them as they had done, and were prone to do, and even did after this, Nehemiah 13:23 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:31

And if the people of the land bring ware ,.... Any thing to be sold, any sort of goods, that being sold might be taken away, as the word signifies: or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell ; anything to make food of; wheat or barley, as Aben Ezra interprets it; the same word is rendered corn; see Gill on Genesis 42:1 ; to sell which was not lawful on the sabbath day, see Amos 8:5 that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day ; any festival, as the feast of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people - All had, in one or other of the classes which sealed, their representatives; and by their sealing they considered themselves bound. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:29

They clave to their brethren - Though they did not sign this instrument, yet they bound themselves under a solemn oath that they would fulfill the conditions of the covenant, and walk according to the law of Moses. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:30

Not give our daughters - Make no affinity with the people of the land. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:31

Bring ware - We will most solemnly keep the Sabbath. Leave the seventh year - We will let the land have its Sabbath, and rest every seventh year. See on Exodus 23:10-11 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 10:1-39

1. The prohibition of intermarriage with the neighbouring idolatrous nations (verse 30); 2. The command to hallow the sabbath; 3. The law concerning the sabbatical year (verse 31); 4. The law of firstfruits (verses 35-37); 5. The obligation to pay tithes to the sacerdotal order (verses 37, 38). Finally, they undertook certain new obligations, not expressly contained in the law, but perhaps regarded as flowing from it by way of natural consequence, or else as desirable... read more

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