Nehemiah 10:23

17. Luke 4:16-17; Acts 15:21; Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:27; Revelation 1:3 18. 2 Timothy 4:2; Acts 5:42 19. James 1:22; Acts 10:33; Matthew 13:19; Hebrews 4:2; Isaiah 66:2 20. Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:13; 1 Corinthians 14:15 21. Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; Acts 2:42 22. Deuteronomy 6:13; Nehemiah 10:29; 2 Corinthians 1:23 23. Psalms 116:14; Isaiah 19:21; Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 24. Joel 2:12; Esther 4:16; Matthew 9:15; Acts 14:23 25. Exodus 15:1-21; Psalms 107:1-43; Nehemiah 12:27- 43; Esther 9:20-22 26. Hebrews 12:28. SECTION VI: Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed: but God is to be worshiped everywhere, in spirit and truth; as, in private families daily, and in secret, each one by himself; so, more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly or willfully to be neglected, or forsaken, when God, by his Word or providence, calleth thereunto. 27. John 4:21 28. Malachi 1:11; 1 Timothy 2:8 29. John 4:23-24 30. Jeremiah 10:25; Deuteronomy 6:6-7; Job 1:5; 2 Samuel 6:18, 20 31. Matthew 6:11; see Job 1:5 32. Matthew 6:6; 16-18; Nehemiah 1:4-11; Daniel 9:3-4a 33. Isaiah 56:6-7; Hebrews 10:25; Psalms 84:1-12; 100:4; 122:1, Luke 4:16; Acts 2:42; 13:42, 44

Now those that sealed were,.... That sealed the covenant, made Nehemiah 9:38 . Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah; the governor of the Jews: and Zidkijah; who seems also to have been a prince, since, without, it could not be said it was sealed by their princes, Nehemiah 9:38 though some think both these were priests, and then the princes must be supposed to be among the chief of the people, Nehemiah 10:14, from hence to the end of the twenty seventh their names follow; the names of the priests, Nehemiah 10:2, who were in all twenty one; no mention is made either of Eliashib the high priest, nor of Ezra the priest and scribe; some think the former had not behaved well in his office, and that the latter was either sick, or returned to Babylon, or however hindered by some providence or another, since we hear of him both a little before and after, Nehemiah 8:2 then the names of the Levites, Nehemiah 10:9, in all seventeen, most of which we have met with in this book before; next follow the names of the chief of the people, Nehemiah 10:14, their number in all forty four; and their names may be observed in the list of those that came out of Babylon with Zerubbabel; the whole number of those that sealed, princes, priests, Levites, and chief of the people, were eighty four.

CHAPTER 10 Ne 10:1-27. The Names of Those Who Sealed the Covenant. 1. Nehemiah, the Tirshatha—His name was placed first in the roll on account of his high official rank, as deputy of the Persian monarch. All classes were included in the subscription; but the people were represented by their elders (Ne 10:14), as it would have been impossible for every one in the country to have been admitted to the sealing.

( Nehemiah 10:16-29 ) The heads of the people. Forty-four names, thirteen of which are found in the list (Ezra 2) of the kindreds who returned with Zerubbabel; see Ezra 2. The rest are names either of the heads of the different houses into which these kindreds were divided, or of the elders of the smaller towns of Benjamin and Judah. The fact that, while only thirty-three kindreds and placed are enumerated in Ezra 2, forty-four occur here, - although names of kindreds mentioned in Ezra 2, e.g., Shephatiah, Arah, Zaccai, etc., are wanting here, - is to be explained partly by the circumstance that these kindreds included several houses whose different heads all subscribed, and partly by fresh accessions during the course of years to the number of houses.

Bikkurim occurs besides v. 19 (and the "" "" Exodus 34:22 ; Exodus 34:26 ), Leviticus 2:14 ; Leviticus 23:17 ; Leviticus 23:20 , Numbers 13:20 ; Numbers 18:13 ; Numbers 23:26 , 2 Kings 4:42 (‘bread of firstfruits’ brought to Elisha), Nehemiah 10:35 ; Nehemiah 13:31 , Ezekiel 44:30 †. Cf. p. 246. No historical significance is in the OT. attached to this festival; but by the later Jews it was regarded as commemorating the giving of the law ‘in the third month’ of the Exodus ( Exodus 19:1 ), which was supposed to have taken place 50 days after the 15th of the first month ( Leviticus 23:6 ; the morning after the Passover on the 14th, Exodus 12:18 ). 16b. The third pilgrimage, the Feast of Ingathering , held at the end of the year, in September, when the threshing was finished, the vintage over, and the juice pressed out from the grapes and olives ( Deuteronomy 16:13 ‘when thou gatherest in from thy threshing-floor and from thy wine-vat ’). It is called the ‘Feast of Ingathering’ also in Exodus 34:22 †: in Dt. ( Deuteronomy 16:13 ; Deuteronomy 16:16 , Deuteronomy 31:10 ) and P ( Leviticus 23:34 ), as also in later writers generally ( Ezra 3:4 , 2 Chronicles 8:13 , Zechariah 14:16 ; Zechariah 14:18-19 †), it is called, from the custom of dwelling at the time in booths made of the branches of trees ( Leviticus 23:40 ; Leviticus 23:42 [H]; Nehemiah 8:14-17 ), the Feast of Booths .