Nehemiah 8:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved. ”

• Nehemiah 8:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  PART IV ( Nehemiah 7:73 b - Nehemiah 10:39 ). Ezra and the Law. Nehemiah 7:73 b - Nehemiah 8:12 . The Reading of the Law. Nehemiah 7:73 b. These words are repeated by mistake from Ez...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the j...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reading of the Law by Ezra 1. The street] RV 'the broad place': and so in Nehemiah 8:3 ; Nehemiah 8:16 . The water gate ] This probably led to the spring of Gihon (the Virgin's spring).

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  So the Levites. — As before, what Ezra said was repeated to the people in various directions by the Levites. But there was evidently an almost irrepressible emotion.

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE JOY OF THE LORD Nehemiah 8:9-18 "ALL the people wept when they heard the words of the law." Was it for this mournful end that Ezra had studied the sacred law and guarded it through the long...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  New Light from God's Law Nehemiah 8:1-18 Surely this was the first public Bible-reading! When will the people be again as hungry for the Word of God as these Jews who stood in the open space fr...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now come to the second section of the Book, which gives an account of the special reading of the Law, and the reform which followed. Ezra now appears on the scene. There has been some speculation...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (10) Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So the Levites stilled all the people ,.... Made them quiet and easy, being backed by the governor: saying, hold your peace ; refrain from weeping and mourning: for the day is holy ; a festival,...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day [is] holy; neither be ye grieved. Ver. 11. So the Levites stilled all the people ] Made them hold their tongues, and for...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So the Levites stilled the people Whose passions, being once raised, could not very soon be composed. Saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy Cease from weeping and mournful cries, and turn...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE READING OF THE LAW (vv. 1-12) We have seen at the end of chapter 6 the wall was completed, and in chapter 7 appointments were made for the proper order to be maintained in the city. Now anot...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the L ORD your God; mourn...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The Levites stilled all the people; whose passions being once raised, could not suddenly be composed. Hold your peace; cease from weeping and mournful cries, and turn your lamentations into thank...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Law Of Moses Is Read And Explained At The Celebration Of The Feasts Of The Seventh Month ( Nehemiah 8:1-18 ). The final words that closed off the list of returnees formed a suitable preface to...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY NOTES.] Nehemiah 8:1 . Street ] Rather “square.” An open place at the gate of Oriental cities where trials were held and wares set forth for sale.— Gesenius . The water gate ] Sec ad...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nehemiah 8:2 . Upon the first day of the seventh month, the day when the civil year began, reckoned from the creation of the world. Ezra began the year, like Adam, with a holy convocation. He, and...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street. The instructor in the law God has evermore blessed His own Word as the chosen instrument of all revival and progress...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART II . ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AMONG THE JEWS UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF NEHEMIAH . EXPOSITION RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF THE PEOPLE BY EZ...

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Feast of Tabernacles

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• Nehemiah 8:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Numbers 13:30

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