尼希米记 13:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我吩咐利未人潔淨自己，然後來看守城門，使安息日分別為聖。“我的　神啊，求你也因這事記念我，照著你豐盛的慈愛憐恤我！”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 吩 咐 利 未 人 洁 净 自 己 ， 来 守 城 门 ， 使 安 息 日 为 圣 。 我 的 　 神 啊 ， 求 你 因 这 事 记 念 我 ， 照 你 的 大 慈 爱 怜 恤 我 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ In those days I saw people in Judah working in the winepresses on the Sabbath day. They were bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys. And they were bringing loads of wine, grapes, and figs into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them about selling food on that day. ¹⁶ People from the city of Tyre who were living in Jerusalem brought in fish and other things and sold them there on the Sabbath day to the people of Judah. ¹⁷ I argued with the important men of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing you are doing? You are ruining the Sabbath day. ¹⁸ This is just what your ancestors did. So our God did terrible things to us and this city. Now you are making him even more angry at Israel by ruining the Sabbath day." ¹⁹ So I ordered that the doors be shut at sunset before the Sabbath and not be opened until the Sabbath was over. I put my servants at the gates so no load could come in on the Sabbath. ²⁰ Once or twice traders and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem. ²¹ So I warned them, "Why are you spending the night by the wall? If you do it again, I will force you away." After that, they did not come back on the Sabbath. ²² Then I ordered the Levites to purify themselves and to guard the city gates to make sure the Sabbath remained holy. Remember me, my God, for this. Have mercy on me because of your great love.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I commanded: Nehemiah 7:64, Nehemiah 7:65, Nehemiah 12:30, 2 Kings 23:4, 1 Chronicles 15:12-14, 2 Chronicles 29:4, 2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 29:24, 2 Chronicles 29:27, 2 Chronicles 29:30, Isaiah 49:23

cleanse: Nehemiah 12:10

sanctify: Deuteronomy 5:12

Remember: Nehemiah 13:14, Nehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 5:19, Psalms 132:1-5, Isaiah 38:3, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Timothy 4:8

spare me: Psalms 25:6, Psalms 25:7, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:2

greatness: or, multitude, Psalms 5:7, Isaiah 55:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Genesis 19:29 - that God Leviticus 2:2 - the memorial Numbers 1:50 - thou shalt Joshua 3:8 - command 2 Kings 20:3 - remember Psalms 26:11 - and Psalms 106:4 - Remember Psalms 112:6 - the righteous Psalms 119:159 - Consider Jeremiah 15:15 - remember Malachi 3:17 - and I 2 Timothy 1:16 - Lord Hebrews 6:10 - to forget

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves,.... From all ceremonial uncleanness, that they might be fit in a ceremonial sense to perform the duties of the office on the sabbath day:

and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day; not the gates of the city, his servants were placed there, nor was this the work of the Levites, and much less did this require a particular purification to fit for it; but the gates of the temple, that no impure person might enter there; and on that day it required the greater diligence, because of the number of people that came to worship:

remember me, O my God, concerning this also; with respect to his care to have the sabbath kept holy, as well as his concern for the honour of the house of God, and the maintenance of his ministers, Nehemiah 13:14,

and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy; he desired to be dealt with, not according to any merits of his own, but according to the abundant mercy of God; that he would kindly and graciously vouchsafe to accept any good that he had done for his mercy sake, and forgive whatever was amiss in him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I commanded the Levites - At first Nehemiah had employed his own retinue Nehemiah 13:19 in the work of keeping the gates. He now assigned the duty to the Levites, as one which properly belonged to them, since the object of the regulation was the due observance of the Sabbath.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. Spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. — By some Nehemiah has been thought to deal with God too much on the principle of merit. That he wished God to remember him for good, is sufficiently evident; and who does not wish the same? But that he expected heaven because of his good deeds, does not appear. Indeed, the concluding clause of this verse proves the contrary, and shows that he expected nothing from God but through the greatness of his mercy. Shame on those who, with this evidence before them, brand this good man with the epithet of workmonger! a man who, in inward holiness, outward usefulness, and genuine love to God and man, was worth ten score of such self-called believers.