Nehemiah 8:8 - The Pulpit Commentary - Bible Study & Commentary

Nehemiah 8:8 - Exposition

They read in the book in the law of God distinctly . That is, so that every word could be distinctly heard. Compare Ezra 4:18 , where a cognate word is translated "plainly." And gave the sense . Translated the Hebrew words into the popular Aramaic or Chaldee . And caused them to understand the reading . Literal]y, "in the reading." In the course of the reading they caused the people to understand by explaining the meaning of each passage.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

The Pulpit Commentary is a homiletic commentary on the Bible created during the nineteenth century under the direction of Rev. Joseph S. Exell and Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. It consists of 23 volumes with 22,000 pages and 95,000 entries, and was written over a 30-year period with 100 contributors.... Show more

Nehemiah 8:8 - Exposition

Nehemiah 8:8 - Exposition

The Pulpit Commentary

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