Nehemiah 10:29 - Exposition

They clave to their brethren, their nobles . They gave their support and adherence to their more distinguished brethren who had attached their seals to the document, approving what they had done, and ratifying it. Entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law . Something of this kind seems to have occurred in the wilderness, when God's law was first given to his people ( Deuteronomy 29:12 ); and therefore, when renewals of the covenant were made, and the people were required to ratify the act, it was natural to recur to the old sanction, An oath was probably taken of the people in the time of Josiah ( 2 Kings 23:3 ), when they are said to have "stood to the covenant." Moses the servant of God . The epithet "servant of God," or "servant of the Lord," attaches to Moses in a peculiar way. God called him ( Numbers 12:7 ) "my servant Moses, who is faithful in all my house;" and henceforward "servant of God" was his epitheton usitatum ( see Joshua 1:1 ; Joshua 8:31 , Joshua 8:33 ; 1 Chronicles 6:49 ; 2 Chronicles 24:9 ; Daniel 9:11 ; Hebrews 3:5 ; Revelation 15:3 ). St. Paul contrasts "Moses, the servant" with "Christ, the Son" ( Hebrews 3:1-6 ).