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Nehemiah 10:24-34

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24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,
27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

The Obligations of the Covenant

28 1"The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, 2and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
29 join with their brothers, their nobles, 3and enter into a curse and an oath 4to walk in God's Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.
30 5We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
31 6And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the 7seventh year and the 8exaction of every debt.
32 "We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly 9a third part of a shekel[a] for the service of the house of our God:
33 10for the showbread, 11the regular grain offering, 12the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
34 13We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots 14for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, 15as it is written in the Law.
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Nehemiah 10:24-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NEHEMIAH 10

In this chapter we have the names of the persons that signed and sealed the covenant mentioned in the last chapter, Ne 10:1-27, and the things they agreed unto and promised to perform; in general to observe the law of God, in particular not to marry with the people of the land, to keep the sabbaths weekly and yearly, to pay annually the third part of the shekel for the service of the temple, to bring into it the wood offerings, first fruits, firstborn, and tithes, Ne 10:28-39.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

  • 1. See Ezra 2:36-54
  • 2. See Nehemiah 9:2
  • 3. Nehemiah 5:12, 13; Deuteronomy 29:12, 14; [Psalms 119:106]
  • 4. [2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chronicles 34:31]
  • 5. Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3; Ezra 9:12, 14
  • 6. Exodus 20:10; Leviticus 23:3; Deuteronomy 5:12; See Nehemiah 13:15-22
  • 7. Exodus 23:10, 11; Leviticus 25:4
  • 8. Deuteronomy 15:1, 2; [Nehemiah 5:12]
  • 9. [Matthew 17:24]
  • 10. 2 Chronicles 2:4; [1 Chronicles 9:32]; See Leviticus 24:5-9
  • 11. See Numbers 28; Numbers 29
  • 12. See Numbers 28; Numbers 29
  • 13. [Nehemiah 11:1]
  • 14. Nehemiah 13:31; [Isaiah 40:16]
  • 15. Leviticus 6:12

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
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