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Nehemías 8:5

Y abrió Esdras el libro a la vista de todo el pueblo, pues él estaba más alto que todo el pueblo; y cuando lo abrió, todo el pueblo se puso en pie.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Feasts;   Law;   Repentance;   Synagogue;   Word of God;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Ezra;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Church of Israel;   Scribes;   Synagogues;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Synagogue;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canon of the Old Testament;   Church;   Nehemiah, the Book of;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nehemiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Malachi;   Synagogue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ezra ;   Scribes;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ezra;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Trumpets, Feast of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Education;   Homiletics;   Law, Reading from the;   Liturgy;   Torah;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Abri� pues Esdras el libro � ojos de todo el pueblo, (porque estaba m�s alto que todo el pueblo); y como lo abri�, todo el pueblo estuvo atento.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Abri�, pues, Esdras el libro a ojos de todo el pueblo (porque estaba m�s alto que todo el pueblo); y como lo abri�, todo el pueblo estuvo atento.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Abri�, pues, Esdras el libro a ojos de todo el pueblo (porque estaba m�s alto que todo el pueblo); y cuando lo abri�, todo el pueblo estuvo atento.

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

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.


 
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