Nehemiah 9:14

14 ¹and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

Nehemiah 9:14 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 9:14

And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath
Which was not made known to others, and was peculiar to the Jewish nation, and a privilege granted to them, to have rest corporeal and spiritual, typical of the rest in Christ:

and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses
thy servant;
moral, ceremonial, and judicial, such as other nations had not, ( Deuteronomy 4:8 ) .

Nehemiah 9:14 In-Context

12 By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.

13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

14 and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

16 “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

Cross References

• 1. 9:14 Ex. 16:23; 20:8-11; [Gen. 2:2, 3; Ezek. 20:12, 20]