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Nehemia 8:1

(8-2) maka serentak berkumpullah seluruh rakyat di halaman di depan pintu gerbang Air. Mereka meminta kepada Ezra, ahli kitab itu, supaya ia membawa kitab Taurat Musa, yakni kitab hukum yang diberikan TUHAN kepada Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   Jerusalem;   Law;   Repentance;   Synagogue;   Word of God;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Scribes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scriptures, the;   Synagogues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Nehemiah;   Streets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Canon;   Education;   Ezra;   Israel;   Joel;   Malachi;   Moses;   Priest;   Scribes;   Synagogue;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jerusalem;   Priest, Priesthood;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy;   Pentateuch;   Scribes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canon of the Old Testament;   Church;   Ezra, the Book of;   Gate;   Mystery;   Nehemiah, the Book of;   Pentateuch;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Market Place;   Midrash;   Nehemiah;   Torah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   City;   Education;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Malachi;   Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ezra ;   Scribes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;   Jerusalem;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeru'salem;   Pen'tateuch, the,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement, Day of;   City;   Complaining;   Education;   Gate;   Teach;   Trumpets, Feast of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ezra the Scribe;   Homiletics;   Law, Reading from the;   Manuscripts;   Torah;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(8-2) maka serentak berkumpullah seluruh rakyat di halaman di depan pintu gerbang Air. Mereka meminta kepada Ezra, ahli kitab itu, supaya ia membawa kitab Taurat Musa, yakni kitab hukum yang diberikan TUHAN kepada Israel.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka pada masa hampir sampai bulan yang ketujuh dan segala orang Israelpun di dalam negeri-negerinya,

Contextual Overview

1 And all the people gathered them selues together as one man, in the streete that was before the water gate, and they saide vnto Esdras the scribe, that he should fetch the booke of the law of Moyses, which the Lorde commaunded to Israel. 2 And Esdras the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men & women, and all that could vnderstand did hearken vnto it vpon the first day of the seuenth moneth. 3 And he read therein in the streete that was before the water gate, from the morning vntill the noone day, before men and women that did hearken to it: and the eares of all the people were inclined vnto the booke of the law. 4 And Esdras the scribe stoode vpon a pulpet of wood which they had made for the preaching, and beside him stoode Mathathia, Sema, & Anaiah, Uriah, Helkia, & Maaseiah, on his right hande: and on his left hand stoode Pedaia, Misael, & Melchia, & Hasum, Hasabadana, Zachari, and Mesullam. 5 And Esdras opened the booke before all the people, (for he stoode aboue al the people:) and when he opened it, all the people stoode vp. 6 And Esdras praysed the Lorde the great God: And all the people aunswered, Amen, Ame, lifting vp their handes, and bowed them selues and worshipped the Lord falling downe vpon their faces to the grounde. 7 And Iesua, Bani, Serebiah, Iamin, Accub, Sebbethai, Hodaia, Maasia, Celita, Azariah, Iozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, & the Leuites caused the people to geue heede vnto the law: and the people stoode in their place. 8 And they read in the booke of the lawe of God distinctly, and gaue the sense, and caused them to vnderstand the reading.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3559, bc 445

all the people: Ezra 3:1-13

as one man: Judges 20:1, Judges 20:8

before: Nehemiah 8:16, Nehemiah 3:26, Nehemiah 12:37

Ezra: Nehemiah 8:4-9, Ezra 7:6, Ezra 7:11, Jeremiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:9, Matthew 13:52, Matthew 23:2, Matthew 23:13, Matthew 23:34

bring: 2 Chronicles 34:15, Isaiah 8:20, Malachi 4:4

Reciprocal: Leviticus 8:3 - General Leviticus 9:5 - and all the congregation Deuteronomy 31:11 - shalt read Deuteronomy 33:10 - They shall teach 2 Kings 22:10 - Shaphan 2 Kings 23:2 - he read 1 Chronicles 24:6 - the scribe 2 Chronicles 32:6 - in the street Ezra 7:10 - and to teach Ezra 7:25 - teach ye Ezekiel 44:24 - in all Zephaniah 2:1 - gather together John 11:55 - before Acts 15:21 - sabbath

Cross-References

Genesis 8:7
And he sent foorth a Rauen, whiche went out, goyng foorth, and returnyng, vntyll the waters were dryed vp vpon the earth.
Genesis 8:9
And the Doue founde no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the arke, for the waters [were] in the vpper face of the whole earth, Then he put foorth his hande, & tooke her, and pulled her to him into the arke.
Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter
Genesis 8:22
Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.
Genesis 19:29
And it came to passe, that when God destroyed the cities of that region, he thought vpon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the middest of the ouerthrow, when he ouerthrewe the cities, in one of the whiche Lot dwelled.
Genesis 30:22
And God remembred Rachel, & God hearde her, and made her fruitefull,
Exodus 2:24
And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
Exodus 14:21
And Moyses stretched out his hande ouer the sea, & the Lorde caused the sea to go backe by a very strong east wynde all that nyght, and made the sea drye [lande] and the waters were deuided.
Numbers 22:32
And the angell of the Lorde said vnto him: Wherfore hast thou smytten thine asse these three times? Beholde, I came out to withstande thee, because [thyne heart] hath declined out of the way before me.
1 Samuel 1:19
And they rose vp early, & worshipped before the Lorde, and then returned, & came to their house to Ramath: And when Elkana knewe Hanna his wyfe, the Lorde remembred her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the watergate,.... A large and commodious street for such a company of people, which led to the water gate, of which see Nehemiah 3:26 hither the people gathered with great unanimity, zeal, and affection:

and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe; the same who is called Ezra the priest, and scribe of the law of God, and said to be a ready one, Ezra 7:6, who came to Jerusalem thirteen years before this time; but very probably returned to Babylon again, and was lately come from thence:

to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel; to observe what was commanded in it, and which he had ordered to be read, particularly every seventh year, at the feast of tabernacles,

Deuteronomy 31:10 which was now drawing near, though this was not the precise time of reading it; hence some have thought this year was the sabbatical year; see Nehemiah 5:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The street - Rather, “the square” or “court.” So in Nehemiah 8:16 (compare Ezra 10:9). The court seems to have been one between the eastern gate of the temple and the watergate in the city-wall. It would thus lie within the modern Haram area.

Ezra the scribe - This is the first mention of Ezra in the present book, and the first proof we have had that he was contemporary with Nehemiah. Probably he returned to the court of Artaxerxes soon after effecting the reforms which he relates in Ezra 10:0, and did not revisit Jerusalem until about the time when the walls were completed, or after an absence of more than ten years. It was natural for the people to request him to resume the work of exposition of the Law to which he had accustomed them on his former visit Ezra 7:10, Ezra 7:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VIII

Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Levites, read and interpret the laws

to the people, 1-7.

The manner in which they do this important work, 8.

The effect produced on the people's minds by hearing it, 9.

The people are exhorted to be glad, and are told that the joy

of the Lord is their strength, 10-12.

On the second day they assemble, and find that they should keep

the feast of tabernacles; which they accordingly religiously

solemnize for seven days; and Ezra reads to them from the book

of the law, 13-18.

NOTES ON CHAP. VIII

Verse Nehemiah 8:1. The street that was before the water gate — The gate which led from the temple to the brook Kidron.


 
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