Acts 7:34; Exodus 14:10-12; Exodus 2:25; Exodus 3:16; Exodus 3:7-9
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 cel...
affliction . humiliation. Compare Exodus 2:23-25 .
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
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 J...
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...
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 Ne...
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 e...
After a brief interval, following the feast came the great day of humiliation. The people separated themselves entirely from all who were not actuall...
(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, t...
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt ,.... The hard bondage in which their lives were made bitter; and was not a mere spectator of i...
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; Ver. 9. And didst see the affliction ] The eyes of th...
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt God's providences over Isaac and Jacob are passed by, to come to his interpositions in their b...
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 Feas...
The Prayer of the Levites. B. C. 444. ...
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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 Reve...
The Cry of The Levites To God On Behalf Of The People ( Nehemiah 9:4-38 ). What follows was presumably the culmination of the three hours of confe...
The Deliverance From Egypt ( Nehemiah 9:9-11 ). They now reminded YHWH what, having established His sovereign power over all things, and having ch...
God's Initial Great Deliverance Of His People From Foreign Ownership, His Wonderful Provision For Them, And Their Response By Seeking Another Captai...
The Levites' Plea On The Basis Of God's Past Mercies ( Nehemiah 9:9-38 ). The Levites now reminded God that He had been faithful to His covenant t...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The confession recorded in this chapter uses largely the language of the older Scriptures. For Nehemiah 9:6 see Psalms 86:10...
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...
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 sanctify...
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt. The path of duty the path of trial I. That the path of human duty here runs through great...
EXPOSITION SOLEMN FAST KEPT , WITH CONFESSION OF SINS ; AND VOLUNTARY COVENANT WITH GOD ENTERED INTO BY THE PEOPL...
The Levites Confess the People's Wickedness
and didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, Exodus 2:25 , and heardest their cry by the Red Sea, Exodus 14:10 ,
9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;