Nehemiæ 29:17

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Scio, Deus meus, quod probes corda, et simplicitatem diligas, unde et ego in simplicitate cordis mei lætus obtuli universa hæc : et populum tuum, qui hic repertus est, vidi cum ingenti gaudio tibi offerre donaria.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Cœperunt autem prima die mensis primi mundare, et in die octavo ejusdem mensis ingressi sunt porticum templi Domini, expiaveruntque templum diebus octo, et in die sextadecima mensis ejusdem, quod cœperant, impleverunt.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Coeperunt autem prima die mensis primi sanctificare et in die octava eiusdem mensis ingressi sunt porticum templi Domini et sanctificaverunt templum Domini diebus octo; et in die sexta decima mensis eiusdem, quod coeperant, impleverunt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the porch: 2 Chronicles 29:7, 2 Chronicles 3:4, 1 Kings 6:3, 1 Chronicles 28:11

the sixteenth: Exodus 12:2-8

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify,.... Either of the reign of King Hezekiah, or rather of the year; the month Ab or Nisan, as the Targum expresses it:

and on the eighth of the month came they to the porch of the Lord; they seem to have begun cleansing the inner part of the temple first, and so came forward until they came to the porch which led into it:

so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; the holy place, and it may be the most holy place, and the court of the priests:

and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end; it took them eight days more to cleanse the outward porch, and the buildings and chambers belonging to the temple; according to Jarchi, it required so much time, because Ahaz had framed pictures of idols upon the walls of the temple, which could not be defaced sooner.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 29:17. On the first day] "They began on the first day of the first month Nisan." - Targum.