Joshua 1:8
book.De 6:6-9; 11:18,19; 17:18,19; 30:14; 31:11; Ps 37:30,31; 40:10Ps 119:42,43; Isa 59:21; Mt 12:35; Eph 4:29thou shalt.Ps 1:2,3; 19:14; 119:11,15,97,99; Pr 2:1-5; 3:1; Col 3:161Ti 4:14-16observe.De 5:29,32,33; 6:1-3; Mt 7:21,24; 28:20; Lu 11:28; Joh 13:17; 14:21Jas 1:22-25; Re 22:14have good success. or, do wisely.7; *marg:Joshua 8:34-35
he read.De 31:10-12; Ne 8:2,3; 9:3; 13:1blessings.Le 26:1-46; De 27:14-26; 28:1-68; 29:20,21; 30:15-20 was not.De 4:2; Jer 26:2; Ac 20:27women.De 29:11; 31:12; Ezr 10:1; Ne 8:2; Joe 2:16; Mr 10:14; Ac 21:5strangers.33were. Heb. walked. conversant.The word conversant, from the Latin {conversor,} is here used in the classical sense of having intercourse with.2 Kings 14:6
The fathers.De 24:16; Eze 18:4,202 Kings 22:8
I have found.This certainly was a genuine copy of the divine law, and probably the autograph of Moses, as it is said, in the parallel place of Chronicles, to be the book of the law of the Lord by Moses. It is not probable that this was the only copy of the law in the land, or that Josiah had never before seen the book of Moses; but the fact seems to be, that this was the original of the covenant renewed by Moses in the plains of Moab, and now being unexpectedly found, its antiquity, the occasion of its being made, the present circumstances of the people, the imperfect state in which the reformation was as yet, after all that had been done, would all concur to produce the effect here mentioned on the mind of the pious Josiah. De 31:24-26; 2Ch 34:14,15-282 Chronicles 25:4
as it is written.De 24:16; 2Ki 14:5,6; Jer 31:29,30; Eze 18:4,202 Chronicles 35:12
as it is written.Le 3:3,5,9-11,14-16Ezra 6:18
the priests.1Ch 23:1-26:32; 2Ch 35:4,5as it is written. Chal. according to the writing.Nu 3:6; 8:9-26Nehemiah 13:1
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; 10:26Ac 13:15; 15:21audience. Heb. ears. the Ammonite.23; De 23:3-5; Isa 15:1-16:14; Jer 48:1-47; Eze 25:1-11; Am 2:1-3Moabite.2:10,19; 4:3; Ps 83:7-9; Jer 49:1-6; Am 1:13-15
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