Nehemia 8:5

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

(8-6) Ezra membuka kitab itu di depan mata seluruh umat, karena ia berdiri lebih tinggi dari semua orang itu. Pada waktu ia membuka kitab itu semua orang bangkit berdiri.

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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
(8-6) Ezra membuka kitab itu di depan mata seluruh umat, karena ia berdiri lebih tinggi dari semua orang itu. Pada waktu ia membuka kitab itu semua orang bangkit berdiri.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka katib Ezrapun berdirilah di atas mimbar kayu, yang sudah diperbuat oleh mereka itu akan perkara ini, dan pada sisinya adalah berdiri Matita dan Sema dan Anaya dan Uria dan Hilkia dan Maaseya pada kanannya dan pada kirinya Pedaya dan Misael dan Malkhia dan Hasum dan Hasbadana dan Zakharya dan Mesulam.

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.