Nehemiah 13:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? ”

• Nehemiah 13:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Some Details of Nehemiah's Rule. This section, taken for the most part from Nehemiah's memoirs, deals with his zeal for the sanctity of the Temple ( Nehemiah 13:4-9 ), his organisation for the main...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Shall we... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. evil. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44. transgress. Hebrew. ma'al. App-44. strange . foreign. Hebrew. nakar, as in Nehemiah 13:30 .

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? Shall we then hearken unto you - If God spared not Solomon, who was so much beloved...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reform of Abuses The reforms embraced the separation of Israel from the mixed multitude and the abolition of certain abuses that had arisen in connexion with the chambers of the Temple, the pr...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (23-29) The mixed marriages again.

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE RIGOUR OF THE REFORMER Nehemiah 13:1-31 THERE is no finality in history. The chapter, that seems to be rounded off with a perfect conclusion always leaves room for an appendix, which in its...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Disobedient and Gainsaying People Nehemiah 13:15-31 Let us remember to keep perpetual Sabbath in the heart, whatever be our outward life. In this life there is a Sabbath rest for the people o...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this final section we have the account of Nehemiah's last reformation, After building the wall he had evidently gone back to the court of the king. Twelve years later, seeking permission, he retur...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here we have recorded another instance of the zeal of Nehemiah in reforming abuses, both as it concerned the divine honor, and the people's happiness. Nothing could be more important than the preserv...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil ,.... To suffer it to be done, and connive at it, and not punish for it: to transgress against our God ; his law, his mind, and will: in...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? Ver. 27. To do all this great evil ] Here are three articles in the Hebrew, impor...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil? That is, would you have me to connive at this wickedness, and so bring guilt upon myself, and ruin upon you? And one of the sons of Joiada...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SEPARATION FROM MIXTURE (vv. 1-3) At this same time, of which chapter 12:27-47 speaks, they read in the Book of Moses that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God, becau...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Dismissal of Strange Wives. B. C. 434.       23 In those days also saw I Jews that had...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Shall we then hearken unto you? shall we justify our action by permitting or not punishing it? God forbid.

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Separation From Idolatrous Foreign Women ( Nehemiah 13:23-27 ). Nehemiah's final act to which he calls God's attention is his purifying of Jerusalem (or possibly of the new Israel) from idolatrous...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY Notes.] Nehemiah 13:1 . On that day ] This is to be understood in the same sense as at that time , in chap. Nehemiah 12:44 . But no doubt public readings of the law took place frequ...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nehemiah 13:6 . In the thirty second year of Artaxerxes. Having been governor in Jerusalem twelve years, Nehemiah returned to the king, at Babylon; and after a residence of about twelve months a...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Elashib did. The religious reformer Remark-- I. The state of Jerusalem during Nehemiah’s absence. II. The reforms he achieved. 1...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION NEHEMIAH 'S EFFORTS FOR THE REFORM OF RELIGION ( Nehemiah 13:1-16 ). After having exercised the office of governor for twelve years, from b.c. 444 to b.c. 432, Nehemi...

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Intermarriages Forbidden

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• Nehemiah 13:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 30:24 ; Ezra 10:2

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