Deu 23:3-6, Neh 4:3-7, 13:1-3 | TSK | STEP | Ammonite.These nations were subjected for their impiety, wickedness, and enmity to Israel, (ver. 4, 5,) to peculiar disgrace; and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites. This did not, however, disqualify them from becoming proselytes; for Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and became one of the progenitors of our Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:3-6

Ammonite.These nations were subjected for their impiety, wickedness, and enmity to Israel, (ver. 4, 5,) to peculiar disgrace; and on this account were not permitted to hold any office among the Israelites. This did not, however, disqualify them from becoming proselytes; for Ruth, who was a Moabitess, was married to Boaz, and became one of the progenitors of our Lord.

Ru 4:6,10-22; Ne 4:3,7; 13:1,2,23; Isa 56:3

Because they met.

2:28,29; Ge 14:17,18; 1Sa 25:11; 1Ki 18:4; Isa 63:9; Zec 2:8

Mt 25:40; Ac 9:4

because they hired.

Nu 22:5,7,17; Ne 13:2

Nevertheless.

Nu 22:35; 23:5-12,16-26; 24:9; Mic 6:5; Ro 8:31; 2Co 4:17

because the.

7:7,8; 33:3; Ps 73:1; Jer 31:3; Eze 16:8; Mal 1:2; Ro 9:13; 11:28

Eph 2:4,5

Thou shalt.

2Sa 8:2; 12:31; Ezr 9:12; Ne 13:23-25

prosperity. Heb. good.

Nehemiah 4:3-7

Tobiah.

2:10,19; 6:1; 1Ki 20:10,18; 2Ki 18:23

Hear.

Ps 123:3,4

despised. Heb. despite. turn.

1Sa 17:26; Ps 79:12; Pr 3:34; Ho 12:14

cover not.

Ps 59:5-13; 69:27; 109:14; Jer 18:23; 2Ti 4:14

their sin.

Ps 51:1,9; Isa 43:25; 44:22

before the builders.

Isa 36:11,12

and all the wall.That is, the whole circuit of the wall was completed unto half the intended height.

for the people.The original is very emphatic, {wyhee laiv lëâm läâsoth,} "for the people had a heart to work." Their heart was engaged in it, and they went about it cheerfully and vigorously.

had a mind.

6:15; 1Ch 29:3,14,17,18; 2Ch 29:36; Ps 110:3; 2Co 8:16,17

Php 2:13; Heb 13:21

Sanballat.

1; 2:10,19

the Ammonites.

Jud 10:7-18; 11:12-40; 1Sa 11:2; 2Sa 10:1-5; 2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 20:1

Eze 25:3-7; Am 1:13

Ashdodites.

13:23,24; 1Sa 5:1,2; 2Ch 26:6-8; Jer 25:20; Am 1:8; 3:9; Zec 9:5,6

heard.

Ezr 4:4-16; 5:8

were made up. Heb. ascended. then.

Ge 3:15; Ac 4:17,18; 5:33; Re 12:12,13,17

Nehemiah 13:1-3

1 Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.

4 Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed.

10 He reforms the offices in the house of God;

15 the violation of the sabbath;

23 and the marriages with the strange wives.

that day.Some suppose that the events recorded in these verses took place several years after those related in the preceding chapter, while Nehemiah was absent at the Persian court; but the introductory language, on that day, seems rather to imply that they occurred immediately, or at least about that time.

they read. Heb. there was read.

8:3-8; 9:3; De 31:11,12; 2Ki 23:2; Isa 34:16; Lu 4:16-19; 10:26

Ac 13:15; 15:21

audience. Heb. ears. the Ammonite.

23; De 23:3-5; Isa 15:1-16:14; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:1-11; Am 2:1-3

Moabite.

2:10,19; 4:3; Ps 83:7-9; Jer 49:1-6; Am 1:13-15

Because.

Mt 25:40

hired Balaam.

Nu 22:3-6; Jos 24:9,10

our God.