Nehemiah 13:24

according to the language. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "but with the tongue"

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The speech of Ashdod - The Philistine language, which was akin to that of Egypt. According to the language of each people - The children spok...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. Half...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, &c.— What the natural language of the Jews at this time was, whether Hebrew or Chaldee,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people....
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Their children spake half ] better, 'of their children half spake,' etc.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(23-29) The mixed marriages again.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Half in the speech of Ashdod. — A mixture of Philistine and Aramaic.
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 conclusio...
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...
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod ,.... Which they learned of their mothers, so that it was a mixed language they spoke, partly...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. Ver...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod , &c. What the natural language of the Jews at this time was, whether Hebrew or Chaldee, i...
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 Moabit...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Dismissal of Strange Wives. B. C. 434....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which their mothers instilled into them, together with their principles and manners.
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 Jerusal...
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...
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 Babyl...
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 Nehem...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Intermarriages Forbidden
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, a sort of mongrel dialect, with corresponding habits learned from their heathen mothers, and...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 3:9

²⁴ And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and couldh not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 13:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 13:24