Verse 9
THE FEAST OF THE NEW MOON, Nehemiah 8:9-12.
The reading of the law made a profound impression on the minds of the people, and they were moved to weeping. It brought also to their attention the duty of observing the feasts of the seventh month, and having spent the first half of the day in hearing the law. (Nehemiah 8:3,) they were dismissed with words of comfort to observe the feast of the new moon, the feast of trumpets.
9. The Tirshatha See on Ezra 2:63. We note that Nehemiah, Ezra, and the Levites, said unto all the people the words that follow. The direction to observe the feast probably originated with Ezra, and was then proclaimed by the Tirshatha, and communicated to all the people by the Levites.
This day is holy According to the law the first day of the seventh month was to be observed as “a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation,” during which no servile work should be done. Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 29:1. It was a day of gladness and festivity, and the people were exhorted to comfort themselves by appropriately observing it.
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