Nehemiah 8:8

Acts 17:2; Acts 17:3; Acts 28:23; Acts 8:30-35; Habakkuk 2:2; Luke 24:27; Luke 24:32; Luke 24:45; Matthew 5:21; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 5:27; Matthew 5:28

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gave the sense - Either by rendering the Hebrew into the Aramaic dialect, or perhaps simply by explaining obscure words or passages. Caused th...
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 7:7...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

read in the book: i.e. the Hebrew text of the Pentateuch. See App-47. distinctly . a distinct [reading], i.e. (according to the Talmud) translati...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. So they read in the book - Fo...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Gave the sense. Commenta...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Gave the sense ] i.e. with such additional explanation as was required for the people to understand what was read.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Gave the sense. — They expounded obscurer passages, and in doing so naturally translated into the vernacular Aramaic dialect. Caused them to unde...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LAW Nehemiah 8:1-8 THE fragmentary nature of the chronicler's work is nowhere more apparent than in that portion of it which treats of the...
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 o...
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 appe...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(3) And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So they read in the book ,.... Ezra and those with him; he first began to read and expound, and when weary they relieved him, and did the same: in...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused [them] to understand the reading. Ver. 8. So they read in th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So they read in the book of the law To wit, Ezra and his companions, successively. And gave the sense The meaning of the Hebrew words, which they...
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 p...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Explanation of the Law. B. C. 444. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They read, to wit, Ezra and his companions successively or severally. Gave the sense; i.e. the meaning of the Hebrew words, which they expounded...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reading And Explaining Of The Law ( Nehemiah 8:1-8 ). The first stage of covenant renewal was the reading and explaining of the Law. Such read...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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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 fo...
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...
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 Biblical Illustrator

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. The Bible ought to be intelligently understood It is to be feared th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART II . ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF RELIGION AMONG THE JEWS UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF NEHEMIAH . EXPOSITION REL...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Law Read and Heard
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So they, Ezra and his assistants, read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. Tha...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — Ezra and his companions successively. Sense — The meaning of the Hebrew words, which they expounded in the common language. Thy gave — So th...

⁸ So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Related Commentaries of Nehemiah 8:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the 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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the 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 Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nehemiah 8:8