Nehemia 8:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(8-6) Ezra membuka kitab itu di depan mata seluruh umat, karena ia berdiri lebih tinggi dari semua orang itu. Pada waktu ia membuka kitab itu semua orang bangkit berdiri.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(8-6) Ezra membuka kitab itu di depan mata seluruh umat, karena ia berdiri lebih tinggi dari semua orang itu. Pada waktu ia membuka kitab itu semua orang bangkit berdiri.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka katib Ezrapun berdirilah di atas mimbar kayu, yang sudah diperbuat oleh mereka itu akan perkara ini, dan pada sisinya adalah berdiri Matita dan Sema dan Anaya dan Uria dan Hilkia dan Maaseya pada kanannya dan pada kirinya Pedaya dan Misael dan Malkhia dan Hasum dan Hasbadana dan Zakharya dan Mesulam.

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

opened: Luke 4:16, Luke 4:17

sight: Heb. eyes

stood up: Judges 3:20, 1 Kings 8:14

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:33 - blessed 2 Chronicles 6:3 - all the congregation

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people),.... So plainly seen by them, and what he did, and the more easily heard, for which purpose the pulpit was made for him to stand in:

and, when he opened it, all the people stood up; that they might the better hear the law read, as well as in honour and reverence of it; the Jews say m, that from the times of Moses to Rabban Gamaliel, they learned the law only standing; but after his death a disease came into the world, and they learned it sitting; and now it is a canon with them, that it is not necessary to stand at the reading of the law n.

m T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 21. 1. n Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. Orach Chayim, c. 146. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Stood up - The attitude of attention and respect. Compare the existing practice of the Christian Church at the reading of the Gospel for the day.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 8:5. All the people stood up — This was out of respect to the sacred word: in imitation of this, when the gospel for the day is read in our churches, all the people stand up.