Nehemia 8:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(8-5) Ezra, ahli kitab itu, berdiri di atas mimbar kayu yang dibuat untuk peristiwa itu. Di sisinya sebelah kanan berdiri Matica, Sema, Anaya, Uria, Hilkia dan Maaseya, sedang di sebelah kiri berdiri Pedaya, Misael, Malkia, Hasum, Hasbadana, Zakharia dan Mesulam.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(8-5) Ezra, ahli kitab itu, berdiri di atas mimbar kayu yang dibuat untuk peristiwa itu. Di sisinya sebelah kanan berdiri Matica, Sema, Anaya, Uria, Hilkia dan Maaseya, sedang di sebelah kiri berdiri Pedaya, Misael, Malkia, Hasum, Hasbadana, Zakharia dan Mesulam.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dibacakannya di hadapan halaman yang di muka pintu Air itu dari pada ketika mulai siang sampai kepada tengah hari di hadapan segala orang laki-laki dan perempuan dan segala orang yang berakal itu, maka telinga segenap orang banyak itu tersenget kepada kitab Taurat itu.

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

pulpit: Heb. tower

Maaseiah: Nehemiah 10:25, Nehemiah 11:5

Malchiah: Nehemiah 10:3

Hashum: Nehemiah 10:18, Ezra 10:33

Meshullam: Nehemiah 10:7, Nehemiah 10:20, Nehemiah 11:7, Nehemiah 12:13, Ezra 10:29

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:7 - Sallu 2 Chronicles 6:13 - scaffold Ezra 7:6 - scribe Ezra 10:18 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 3:23 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 3:25 - Pedaiah Nehemiah 8:1 - Ezra Nehemiah 8:7 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 9:3 - they stood Nehemiah 13:13 - Pedaiah Matthew 23:2 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 8:17
And bryng foorth with thee euery beast that is with thee, of all fleshe, both foule and cattell, and euery worme that crepeth vpon the earth, that they may breede in the earth, and bring foorth fruite, and multiplie vpon earth.

Genesis 8:19
Euery beast also, and euery worme, euery foule, and whatsoeuer crepeth vpon the earth after their kyndes, went out of the arke.

2 Kings 19:37
And it fortuned, that as he was in a temple worshipping Nisroch his God, Adramelech & Saresar his owne sonnes smote hym with the sworde: And they escaped into the lande of Armenia, and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steade.

Isaiah 37:38
Afterwarde it chaunced as he prayed in the temple of Nesroch his God, that Adramalech and Sarazer his owne sonnes slue hym with the sworde, and fled into the lande of Armenia: and Asarhaddon his sonne raigned in his steede.

Jeremiah 51:27
Set vp a token in the lande, blowe the trumpets among the heathen, prouoke the nations agaynst her, call the kyngdomes of Ararat, Menni, and Ascanez, agaynst her, set the prince agaynst her, bryng as great a sort of terrible horses agaynst her as yf they were grashoppers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose,.... Or to speak out of, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; this, in the Hebrew text, is called a "tower" i, partly because of its height, and partly because in the form of one; and also for its largeness, considering the use it was for; for it was so large as to hold fourteen men, as appears by what follows: a pulpit of wood was made for the king in the court, to read the law from k; though, according to Jacob Leo, it was a throne like an high tower,

:-, the pulpits, in the Jewish synagogues, made after the same manner, as Aben Ezra observes, are called by the same l name:

and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah; and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam; in all thirteen; there were six on his right, and seven on his left, who stood here, not merely in honour to him, and as approvers and supporters of the truth of what he read, but to relieve him when weary.

i על מגדל עץ "super turrem ligni", Montanus; so Dionysius is said, "concionari ex turri alta", Ciceron. Tuscul. Quaest. l. 5. k Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 141. sect. 7. l Misn. Sotah, c. 7. sect. 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 13 persons mentioned were probably the chief priests of the course (shift) which was at the time performing the temple service.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 8:4. Stood upon a pulpit of wood — מגדל migdal, a tower, a platform, raised up for the purpose, to elevate him sufficiently for the people both to see and hear him; for it is said, Nehemiah 8:5, that he was above all the people. This is the first intimation we have of a pulpit, or structure of this kind. But we must not suppose that it was any thing similar to those tubs or barrels ridiculously set up in churches and chapels, in which a preacher is nearly as much confined, during the time of his preaching, as if he was in the stocks.