Neh 8:14, 13:1-3, Isa 8:20 | TSK | STEP | by. Heb. by the hand of. dwell. booths. the feast.That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the month {Tisri,} the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, in commemoration of the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage. For other particulars see the parallel passages.

Nehemiah 8:14

by. Heb. by the hand of. dwell.

Le 23:34,40-43; De 16:13-15; Zec 14:16-19; Joh 7:2

booths.

the feast.That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the month {Tisri,} the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, in commemoration of the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage. For other particulars see the parallel passages.

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.