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Nehemías 9:38
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A causa pues de todo eso nosotros hacemos fiel alianza, y la escribimos, signada de nuestros pr�ncipes, de nuestros Levitas, y de nuestros sacerdotes.
A causa, pues, de todo eso nosotros hacemos fiel pacto, y lo escribimos, signado de nuestros pr�ncipes, de nuestros levitas, y de nuestros sacerdotes.
A causa, pues, de todo esto, nosotros hacemos fiel alianza, y la escribimos, signada de nuestros pr�ncipes, de nuestros levitas, y de nuestros sacerdotes.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we make: Nehemiah 10:29, 2 Kings 23:3, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 15:13, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 29:10, 2 Chronicles 34:31, Ezra 10:3
seal unto it: Heb. are at the sealing, or sealed, Nehemiah 10:1
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 29:10 - General Joshua 24:25 - made 2 Samuel 5:3 - made 2 Kings 11:4 - made a covenant 2 Kings 11:17 - made a covenant Job 33:16 - sealeth Isaiah 44:5 - subscribe Jeremiah 34:8 - had
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And because of all this,.... Of all this distress, and that it might be removed, and be clear of it; or "in all this distress and evil", as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, in the midst of it all:
we make a sure covenant; or faithfully promise to observe the law of God, and particularly put away strange wives, and not intermarry with the people of the land:
and write it; that it may remain and be a testimony against them should they break it, being their own handwriting:
and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it; as witnesses of it, and thereby binding themselves to observe the same things; their names that sealed are given in the next chapter.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Seal unto it - The exact force of the phrase used is doubtful; but its general sense must be that the classes named took part in the sealing. It was usual in the East to authenticate covenants by appending the seals of those who were parties to them (see Jeremiah 32:10).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nehemiah 9:38. Our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it. — Persuaded that we have brought all the miseries upon ourselves by our transgressions, feeling much and fearing more, we make a covenant with thee to devote ourselves to thy service; to do with us as thou pleasest. From this sealing we learn that at this time the government of the Jews was a mixed aristocracy; composed of the nobles for the civil department, and the priests and Levites for the ecclesiastical.
This was not mixing the Church with the state, or the state with the Church: both were separate, yet both mutually supported each other. The state never attempted to model the Church according to its own mind; because the Church had been founded and regulated by God, and neither its creed nor its ordinances could be changed. The Church did not meddle with the state, to give it new laws, new ordinances, or new officers. Therefore the one could not be jealous of the other. Where this state of things prevails, every public blessing may be expected. In every state God says to the governors and the governed: "Render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to GOD the things which are GOD's."
