Nehemiah 9:38

THE SEALED COVENANT, Nehemiah 9:38 to Nehemiah 10:27.

38. Because of all this In view of the people’s profound humiliation and penitence, as expressed in the preceding prayer. This verse properly belongs to chapter 10.

We make a sure covenant For the purpose of preserving and perpetuating the excellent feeling that now prevailed, the whole community entered at once into a written covenant to separate themselves from the heathen and remain true to Jehovah.

Seal unto it The word rendered seal is the passive participle sealed, and is evidently used in the sense of sealed instrument. Thus, literally, and upon the sealed, (document,) were our princes, Levites, priests; that is, the sealed instrument bore their names or signatures. Such solemn sealing of documents to ratify a treaty or covenant has been a custom in all ages.