Néhémie 13:22

22 Je dis aussi aux Lévites de se purifier et de venir garder les portes, pour sanctifier le jour du sabbat. O mon Dieu, souviens-toi de moi à cet égard, et me pardonne selon la grandeur de ta miséricorde!

Néhémie 13:22 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 13:22

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse
themselves
From all ceremonial uncleanness, that they might be fit in a ceremonial sense to perform the duties of the office on the sabbath day:

and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the
sabbath day;
not the gates of the city, his servants were placed there, nor was this the work of the Levites, and much less did this require a particular purification to fit for it; but the gates of the temple, that no impure person might enter there; and on that day it required the greater diligence, because of the number of people that came to worship:

remember me, O my God, concerning this also;
with respect to his care to have the sabbath kept holy, as well as his concern for the honour of the house of God, and the maintenance of his ministers, ( Nehemiah 13:14 ) ,

and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy;
he desired to be dealt with, not according to any merits of his own, but according to the abundant mercy of God; that he would kindly and graciously vouchsafe to accept any good that he had done for his mercy sake, and forgive whatever was amiss in him.

Néhémie 13:22 In-Context

20 Et les marchands, et ceux qui vendaient toutes sortes de marchandises, passèrent la nuit une fois ou deux, hors de Jérusalem.

21 Je leur fis des remontrances, et leur dis: Pourquoi passez-vous la nuit devant la muraille? Si vous y retournez, je mettrai la main sur vous. Depuis ce temps-là, ils ne vinrent plus le jour du sabbat.

22 Je dis aussi aux Lévites de se purifier et de venir garder les portes, pour sanctifier le jour du sabbat. O mon Dieu, souviens-toi de moi à cet égard, et me pardonne selon la grandeur de ta miséricorde!

23 En ces jours-là aussi je vis des Juifs qui avaient pris des femmes asdodiennes, ammonites et moabites.

24 Quant à leurs enfants, la moitié parlait l'asdodien et ne savait point parler la langue des Juifs, mais bien la langue de tel ou tel peuple.