Nehemiah 9:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, ”

• Nehemiah 9:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Fast and a National Confession. All that took place, as described in this section, was the result of the reading of the Law. The command to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles having been observ...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dealt proudly . fostered pride.

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham; No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Renewal of the Covenant 4. Stairs] lit. 'ascent': probably the pulpit of wood mentioned in Nehemiah 8:4 . Bani.. Bani ] One of the two names is probably an error for 'Binnui': cp. Nehemiah...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Dealt proudly. — Like the Egyptians themselves ( Nehemiah 9:10 ). It is remarkable that the same word is used as in the Hebrew of Exodus 18:11 and Deuteronomy 1:43 .

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE RELIGION OF HISTORY Nehemiah 9:1-38 AFTER the carnival-Lent. This Catholic procedure was anticipated by the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah. The merry feast of Tabernacles was scarcel...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  God's Hand in History Nehemiah 9:1-21 What a blessed result of the Bible-study of the previous chapter. It led to confession, separation from evil association and worship. It is good to review...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After a brief interval, following the feast came the great day of humiliation. The people separated themselves entirely from all who were not actually within the Covenant, and gave themselves to conf...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (6) Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preserv...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But they and our fathers dealt proudly ,.... Behaved in a haughty manner towards God, their kind benefactor: and hardened their necks ; refused to take the yoke of his law, as refractory oxen, tha...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, Ver. 16. But they and our fathers ] God's mercies have been hitherto mentioned, that their...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But our fathers dealt proudly , &c. Notwithstanding all thy singular and wonderful mercies, they sinned presumptuously, and with a high hand, scorning to submit their wills to thine. Having hith...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISRAEL'S GUILT CONFESSED TO THEIR CREATOR (vv. 1-6) The Great Day of Atonement was on the first day of the seventh month, followed by the Feast of Tabernacles beginning the 15th day; but what...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Prayer of the Levites. B. C. 444.       4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites,...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Notwithstanding all these singular and wonderful mercies; which he hitherto recounted to aggravate their sins, which he now comes to confess, and to lead them to a sincere and ingenuous grief and rep...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The People Mourn Over Their Sins, Confess Them, And Are Led By The Levites In A Prayer Of Contrition And Remembrance Of God's Grace Continually Revealed Towards Them In The Past, In Hope That In The...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The confession recorded in this chapter uses largely the language of the older Scriptures. For Nehemiah 9:6 see Psalms 86:10 ; Exodus 20:11 , and Deuteronomy 10:14 . For Ne...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nehemiah 9:1 . On the twenty fourth day of this month. The third day after the feast of tabernacles, the people assembled with fasting, to abjure associations with heathen women. See Ezra 10:3 ....

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God. The suppliant The true test of the good received in religious ordinances is their sanctifying effect on the life. Many a tree is gay with bl...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION SOLEMN FAST KEPT , WITH CONFESSION OF SINS ; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPLE , AND SEALED TO BY THE PRINCES , PRI...

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness

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• Nehemiah 9:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 30:8 ; 2 Chronicles 36:13 ; 2 Kings 17:14 ; Acts 7:51 ; Deuteronomy 31:27 ; Deuteronomy 32:15 ; Deuteronomy 5:29 ; Deuteronomy 9:13 ; Deuteronomy 9:23 ; Deuteronomy 9:24 ; Deu...

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