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
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