Nehemiah 10:9-28 sits inside this longer paragraph.
1Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, 2Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, 3Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, 4Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, 5Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, 6Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, 7Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, 8Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests. 9The Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; 10and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, 11Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, 12Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, 13Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. 14The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, 15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, 16Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, 17Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, 18Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, 19Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, 20Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, 21Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, 22Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, 23Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, 24Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, 25Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, 26Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, 27Malluch, Harim, and Baanah.
28The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge, and understanding— 29joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; 30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; 31and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv14, 28 Or, captain of Moab.
Or, captain of Moab.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v28 Neh 10:28 And the rest of the people, the…
Neh 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
Ver. 28. That had separated themselves] In St Paul’s sense, 2Co 6:17, "Come out from among them, and be ye separate," &c., from such stand off; stand up from the dead; save yourselves from this untoward generation, shun their sins, lest ye share in their plagues. These holy separates, or proselytes, sealed the covenant, and became free denizens of the commonwealth of Israel; having right to all God’s ordinances, Exo 12:48. Such were Araunah, the Jebusite, 2Sa 24:18-25; Jether, the Ishmaelite, 1Ch 7:17, with 2Sa 17:25; those, Act 2:10; the Jews called them Advenas Iustitiae. Newcomers of justice. Diodati interpreteth this text of such Jews as were come again out of Babylon, to serve the Lord, according to his law. Others of such as had separated themselves from their heathen wives and children.
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Their wives, their sons, and their daughters] These also were then, and still may be, covenanters, as partakers of the benefit, 1Ti 6:2 and heirs together of the grace of life, 1Pe 3:7.
Every one having knowledge] Of their own misery by sin, and of the great mystery of godliness.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv14, 28 The chief of the people, i.e. their elders, or…
The chief of the people, i.e. their elders, or representatives, acting in the stead and by the appointment of all the rest; for it had been troublesome and unnecessary for every one of the people to seal.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On v28 And the rest of the people,.... That did not…
And the rest of the people,.... That did not sign and seal:
the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims; the porters and singers were Levites; but those so called were such as waited upon the priests, as the Nethinims were persons that waited on them:
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and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God; proselytes, who had renounced Heathenism, and embraced the true religion, had received the law of God, and professed to walk according to it:
their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge, and having understanding; of the nature of the covenant, and the things contained in it, of what was required of them, and of what they promised, of the nature of an oath they entered into, and of the sin of perjury.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v28 Verse 28. And the rest of the people] All…
Verse 28. And the rest of the people] All had, in one or other of the classes which sealed, their representatives; and by their sealing they considered themselves bound.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv14, 28 Neh 10:14. The chief of the people — It…
Neh 10:14. The chief of the people — It would have been tedious to make all the people subscribe and seal the writing, therefore the chiefs and princes of each family signed and sealed it in the name of the rest; and they seem to have subscribed in the name of him from whom the family was derived.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv14, 28 Pharos. Many of these are mentioned as returning from…
Pharos. Many of these are mentioned as returning from Babylon, chap. vii. 8, 11, &c.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv14, 28 14. Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam — These and other names…
14. Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam — These and other names in this list are identical with names found in the list of those who returned from the captivity nearly a hundred years before. Ezra ii; Nehemiah 7. Thus in many houses ancestral names were perpetuated in the children. But we are not to suppose that the persons named in this list were identical with those of the same names in the older list of Ezra 2.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28 9–13. The Levites
9–13. The Levites
9. both Jeshua] R.V. namely, Jeshua. The ‘copula’ is used definitively as in Neh_9:16-22. But some of the best MSS. omit it altogether.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv9, 14, 28 (9) And the Levites.—Five of these family names are…
(9) And the Levites.—Five of these family names are traceable (Ezr_2:40; Ezr_8:19; Neh_7:43).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9, 14, 28 Vers. 9-13. Jeshua, Binnui, and Kadmiel represent the three…
Vers. 9-13. Jeshua, Binnui, and Kadmiel represent the three chief families of returned Levites. (see Ezr_2:40 Ezr_3:9 Neh_7:43, 44 9:4, 5, etc.) Binnui, it may be remarked, has now supplanted Kadmiel, and stepped into the second place. Of the remaining names, those of Hashabiah and Sherebiah designate families which returned with Ezra. (Ezr_8:18, Ezr_8:19) The remaining names are probably also those of families.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v28 And all they that had separated themselves from the…
Neh_10:28-30
And all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God.
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A genuine revival
1. The crucial test of any revival is the extent to which it actually purifies and reforms the lives of those who come under its influence.
2. This is the kind of revival which ever and again we all need. For we are constantly liable to fall below the level of our Christian privileges. We are also apt to grow blind to out own defects, and to under-estimate the extent of our own shortcomings. We have need to bring our lives into the light of Gods holy law, and into the light of the life of Christ, that our consciences may be awakened to a truer and deeper penitence.
3. A repentance which is the fruit of A true revival of the religious life naturally goes into the details of conduct. (T. Campbell Finlayson.)
And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land.
Marriage and purity
Wherever I find a purely savage life, which means life eaten up by impure sin, there I also find no capacity in the life to advance and grow. You have an instance in the case of Africa, the life of which has not moved for a couple of thousand years, simply because it is soaked with impurity. Turning to the earliest efforts of civilisation, as recorded in the Bible, I find men making effort after effort, getting a little way, and then each effort vanishing in a sink of impure sin. Life ought to grow if natural, but if impurity is natural, it is natural to stagnate, never to grow, to fall to pieces, and for civilisations to be swept out by weakness and impotence. The history of our European civilisation is the history of the gradual rise in the idea of marriage and purity. (Canon Scott-Holland.)
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v28 The Provisions of the Covenant
The Provisions of the Covenant
v. 28. And the rest of the people, those who had not personally subscribed the covenant and yet were in hearty accord with all its provisions, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Law of God, by repudiating both mixed marriages and all other intercourse which might lead to indifference and carelessness toward the pure religion, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge and having understanding, those who had the correct idea regarding the will of the Lord and were ready to uphold the right understanding in their entire lives,
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v. 29. they gave to their brethren, standing upon the side of those who had sealed the covenant, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath to walk in God’s Law which warn given by Moses, the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord, our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes, calling down the curse of God upon themselves if they would violate their promise;
v. 30. and that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons, thus doing away with the evil of mixed marriages entirely;
v. 31. and if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath-day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath or on the holy-day, on any festival-day fixed by the ordinance of God; and that we would leave the seventh year, that is, leave the land fallow each seventh year, Exo 23:11, and the exaction of every debt, remitting in the seventh year the debt of every person, as the Law required, Deu 15:2.
v. 32. Also we made ordinances for us to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel (about 21 cents) for the service of the house of our God, this sum being afterwards raised to a halt-shekel, Mat 17:24,
v. 33. for the showbread, that for the Holy Place, which was renewed every Sabbath, Lev 24:5, and for the continual meat-offering, and for the continual burnt offering, Numbers 28, 29, the regular sacrifices, both for week-days and for the holidays, of the Sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, on the annual Day of Atonement, and for all the work of the house of our God. All these expenses were met with the annual tax of the Sanctuary which the people here imposed upon themselves.
v. 34. And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people for the wood-offering, for large quantities of wood were used for the sacrifices of the Temple, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, in a certain rotation, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord, our God, as it is written in the Law, Lev 6:12; the small number of returned Nethinim making this burden too heavy for them, the work was distributed in this manner and the Feast of Wood-offering thus instituted, which was celebrated on the 14th of Ab (August);
v. 35. and to bring the first-fruits of our ground and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord, Exo 23:19; Exo 34:26; Lev 19:23; Deu 26:2;
v. 36. also the first-born of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, Exo 13:2 to Exo 12:13, a special offering being brought for the release of the first-born sons, Num 18:15-16, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God;
v. 37. and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, of groats, or ground barley, and our offerings, the voluntary gifts, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine, and of oil unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God, where there were cells with special receptacles for storing such offerings, and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, Lev 27:30; Num 18:21, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
v. 38. And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes, the dignity of the priest insuring a peaceful and honest delivery of the tithes, both by the people to the Levites and by the Levites to the Temple; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes, the tenth part of their income being given to the priests, Num 18:26-28, unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house, for in one of the buildings of the Temple area the treasury of the Temple was kept.
v. 39. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, as just produced from the grapes of the year, and the oil, the olive-oil, as it came from the presses, unto the chambers where are the vessels of the Sanctuary, the Temple goods, and the priests that minister, and the porters, in charge of the Temple gates, and the singers, in charge of the liturgical part of the Temple worship; and we will not forsake the house of our God. It was a vow inspired by ardent devotion and made in all sincerity. The believers of the New Testament, in exercising their Christian liberty, pledge themselves to support the needs of the Church at home and abroad, to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in all the world.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9, 15, 22, 28 General Information:
General Information:
In these verses, Nehemiah continues to list the names of the people who signed the sealed document.
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The Levites were
This refers to those who put their names on the sealed documents. AT: "The Levites who put their names on the sealed documents were" (See: Ellipsis)
Jeshua ... Henadad
These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:18-19. (See: How to Translate Names)
Azaniah ... Rehob ... Beninu
These are the names of men. (See: How to Translate Names)
Binnui
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:24. (See: How to Translate Names)
Kadmiel
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:43. (See: How to Translate Names)
Shebaniah
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 9:4. (See: How to Translate Names)
Hodiah ... Kelita ... Pelaiah ... Sherebiah
These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 8:7. (See: How to Translate Names)
Hanan
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:49. (See: How to Translate Names)
Mika
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 10:11. (See: How to Translate Names)
Hashabiah ... Bani
These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:17. (See: How to Translate Names)
Zaccur
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:2. (See: How to Translate Names)
The leaders of the people were
This refers to those who put their names on the sealed documents. AT: "The leaders of the people who put their names on the sealed documents were" (See: Ellipsis)
Parosh
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:25. (See: How to Translate Names)
Pahath-Moab
This is a man's name. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 3:11. (See: How to Translate Names)
Elam ... Zattu
These are the names of men. See how you translated this in Nehemiah 7:12. (See: How to Translate Names)
translationWords
Levi
people group
Moab
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v28 10:28 separated themselves from the pagan people: See 9:2;…
10:28 separated themselves from the pagan people: See 9:2; cp. Ezra 9–10.
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