Nehemiah 10:24-34

24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

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,

29 are joining with their kinsmen, their nobles, and are ³taking 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 ⁴that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.

31 As ⁵for the peoples of the land who bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the sabbath or a holy day; and we will forego the crops the ⁶seventh year and the ⁷exaction of every debt.

32 We also placed ourselves under obligation to contribute yearly ⁸one third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

33 for the ⁹showbread *, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

34 Likewise ¹⁰we cast lots ¹¹for the supply of wood among the priests, the Levites and the people so that they might bring it to the house of our God, according to our fathers' households, at fixed times annually, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as 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 11

1. Ezra 2:36-58
2. Nehemiah 9:2
3. Nehemiah 5:12
4. Exodus 34:16; Deuteronomy 7:3
5. Nehemiah 13:15-22
6. Exodus 23:10, 11; Leviticus 25:1-7
7. Deuteronomy 15:1, 2
8. Exodus 30:11-16; Matthew 17:24
9. Leviticus 24:5, 6; 2 Chronicles 2:4
10. Nehemiah 11:1
11. Nehemiah 13:31

Footnotes 4

[a]. Lit "brothers"
[b]. Lit "entering into a"
[c]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD
[d]. Lit "imposed commandments on us"