Nehemiah 10:28

Obligations of the Document

28 Now ¹the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and ²all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

Nehemiah 10:28 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people
That did not sign and seal:

the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims;
the porters and singers were Levites; but those so called were such as waited upon the priests, as the Nethinims were persons that waited on them:

and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands
unto the law of God;
proselytes, who had renounced Heathenism, and embraced the true religion, had received the law of God, and professed to walk according to it;

their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having
knowledge, and having understanding;
of the nature of the covenant, and the things contained in it, of what was required of them, and of what they promised, of the nature of an oath they entered into, and of the sin of perjury.

Nehemiah 10:28 In-Context

26 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,

27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

28 Now the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all those who had knowledge and understanding,

29 are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are taking on themselves a curse and an oath to walk in God's law, which was given through Moses, God's servant, and to keep and to observe all the commandments of GOD our Lord , and His ordinances and His statutes;

30 and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

Cross References

• 1. Ezra 2:36-58
• 2. Nehemiah 9:2