Nehemiah 10:30-38

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 10:1-39

Israel’s confession and oath (9:1-10:39)Two days after the end of the Feast of Tabernacles (which lasted from the fifteenth day to the twenty-second day of the month; see 8:18; Leviticus 23:34), the people reassembled for another reading of the law. After this came a time of confession and worship led by the Levites (9:1-5).The prayer began by exalting God as the great Creator, and by praising him for choosing Abraham and making his covenant with him (6-8). God was faithful to his people... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:31

ware = wares. Hebrew, plural only here. on the sabbath. Compare Nehemiah 9:14 ; Nehemiah 13:15 , Nehemiah 13:16 , Nehemiah 13:18 , Nehemiah 13:19 , Nehemiah 13:21 . This observation of the sabbath ensured the reading of God's Word, and the multiplication of copies. holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 . leave, &c.: i.e. forego the produce of the seventh year. the seventh year. See Exodus 23:10 , Exodus 23:11 .Leviticus 25:2 , Leviticus 25:7 . the exaction of every debt. Hebrew = the burden of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:33

meat offering = gift, or meal offering. Hebrew. min-chah. burnt offering. App-43 . holy. See note on Exodus 3:5 . Israel. See note on 1 Kings 12:17 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:34

the wood offering. Hebrew the offering of wood. Figure of speech Hypallage. App-6 . Not prescribed by the law. Josephus calls it Xylophory, or wood-bearing. A feast kept on the 22nd of Ab, and at other times. burn. Hebrew. ba'ar, to consume. Not yazath (as in Nehemiah 1:3 ; Nehemiah 2:17 ); or saraph (as in Nehemiah 4:2 . App-43 .) written in the law. See note on Exodus 17:14 , and App-47 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:37

offerings = heave offerings. See App-43 . wine = new wine. Hebrew. tirosh. App-27 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nehemiah 10:38

into = attached to. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:32

FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THE COVENANT"Also we made ordinances for us to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of God; for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of God.""Also we made ordinances for ourselves" (Nehemiah 10:33). "This... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Nehemiah 10:34

THE WOOD-OFFERING; THE FIRST-FRUITS; AND THE TITHES"And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law; and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah; also the first-born of our sons, and of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 10:32

32. the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God—The law required every individual above twenty years of age to pay half a shekel to the sanctuary. But in consequence of the general poverty of the people, occasioned by war and captivity, this tribute was reduced to a third part of a shekel. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 10:33

29-37. to observe and do all the commandments, c.—This national covenant, besides containing a solemn pledge of obedience to the divine law generally, specified their engagement to some particular duties, which the character and exigency of the times stamped with great urgency and importance, and which may be summed up under the following heads: that they abstain from contracting matrimonial alliances with the heathen that they would rigidly observe the sabbath; that they would let the land... read more

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