尼希米记 8:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

並且要在自己的城裡和在耶路撒冷宣揚布告說：“你們要上到山上，把橄欖樹枝、油木樹枝、番石榴枝、棕樹枝和樹葉繁茂大樹的枝子帶回來，照著律法所寫的搭棚。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
并 要 在 各 城 和 耶 路 撒 冷 宣 传 报 告 说 ： 你 们 当 上 山 ， 将 橄 榄 树 、 野 橄 榄 树 、 番 石 榴 树 、 棕 树 ， 和 各 样 茂 密 树 的 枝 子 取 来 ， 照 着 所 写 的 搭 棚 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ On the second day of the month, the leaders of all the families, the priests, and the Levites met with Ezra the teacher. They gathered to study the words of the Teachings. ¹⁴ This is what they found written in the Teachings: The Lord commanded through Moses that the people of Israel were to live in shelters during the feast of the seventh month. ¹⁵ The people were supposed to preach this message and spread it through all their towns and in Jerusalem: "Go out into the mountains, and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, myrtle trees, palms, and shade trees. Make shelters with them, as it is written." ¹⁶ So the people went out and got tree branches. They built shelters on their roofs, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the Temple, in the square by the Water Gate, and in the square next to the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ The whole group that had come back from captivity built shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done this since the time of Joshua son of Nun. And they were very happy. ¹⁸ Ezra read to them every day from the Book of the Teachings, from the first day to the last. The people of Israel celebrated the feast for seven days, and then on the eighth day the people gathered as the law said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And that: Leviticus 23:4

in Jerusalem: Deuteronomy 16:16

the mount: Judges 9:48, Judges 9:49, Matthew 21:1

fetch: Leviticus 23:40

olive: Genesis 8:11

palm: John 12:13, Revelation 7:9

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 22:10 - Shaphan Hosea 12:9 - as in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem,.... That is, as Jarchi interprets it, by supplying it thus,

and they commanded that they should publish, c. Ezra and those with him gave orders that heralds should proclaim in all cities where the Jews dwelt that the feast of tabernacles would be kept, and they should prepare for it and which seems to be the true sense, since it is not written in the law that such a proclamation should be made; but this was an order of their own, thereby to give notice of it, that all might be provided:

go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written; in Leviticus 23:40, where the first three of these seem to be called boughs of goodly trees; though the Jews r commonly understand them of pomecitrons, of which the Syriac version here interprets the myrtle branches; and by them are meant the citron branches, with the leaves and fruit, and which the Jews make absolutely necessary to the keeping of the feast, and for beautiful ones will give a large price; some of them go every year to Spain, and buy as many as they can, and dispose of them wherever Jews live s: and those branches were to be fetched, not properly speaking to make the booths of, which were made of boards and planks, but for the decoration of them; and it was not necessary, according to Aben Ezra, that some of each of these should be gathered for that purpose, but of any sort of them; for he interprets the words disjunctively olive branches, or pine branches, or myrtle branches, c. these, according to the common notion of the Jews, were tied up in little bundles, and carried in the hand, which they call "lulabs" and they observe t, the thick branches were for them, which included the rest; now these they were to fetch from the mount of Olives, and other mountains about Jerusalem; near to which also there was a place called Motza u; whither they went, and gathered the willows of the brook mentioned in Leviticus 23:39.

r T. Bab. Succah, fol. 35. 1. s Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 21. p. 454. t Succah, fol. 12. 1. u Misn. Saccah, c. 4. sect. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The mount - The “mount of Olives” is probably intended.

Pine branches - Rather, “branches of the wild olive.” The actual trees named by the Law may have become scarce. It was probably considered that the spirit of the command was kept if branches of trees similar in general character to those named in Leviticus were employed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. Fetch olive branches — For every thing concerning this feast of tabernacles, see the notes on Lev. xxiii., and the other places there referred to.