Nehemia 13:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Aku menyesali para penguasa, kataku: "Mengapa rumah Allah dibiarkan begitu saja?" Lalu kukumpulkan orang-orang Lewi itu dan kukembalikan pada tempatnya.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Aku menyesali para penguasa, kataku: "Mengapa rumah Allah dibiarkan begitu saja?" Lalu kukumpulkan orang-orang Lewi itu dan kukembalikan pada tempatnya.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sebab hal itu berbantah-bantahlah aku dengan segala penghulu itu, kataku: Mengapa maka bait-Ullah itu sudah ditinggalkan? Maka kuhimpunkanlah mereka itu pula dan kupulangkan mereka itu kepada jawatannya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ And I perceaued that the portions of the Leuites had not ben geuen them, and that euery one was fled to his land, euen the Leuites and singers that executed the worke. ¹¹ Then reproued I the rulers, and sayd: Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. ¹² Then brought all Iuda the tythes of corne, and wine, and oyle, vnto the treasure. ¹³ And I made treasures ouer the treasure, euen Selemiah the priest, and Zadoc the scribe, and of the Leuites, Phadaia: and vnder their hand was Hanan the sonne of Zacur, the sonne of Mathania: for they were counted faythful, and their office was to distribute [the portions] vnto their brethren. ¹⁴ Thinke vpon me O my God herein, and wype not out my mercie that I haue shewed on the house of my God, and on the offices therof.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

contended: Nehemiah 13:17, Nehemiah 13:25, Nehemiah 5:6-13, Job 31:34, Proverbs 28:4

Why is the house: Nehemiah 10:39, 1 Samuel 2:17, Malachi 3:8-11

place: Heb. standing

Reciprocal: Judges 17:8 - departed

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left.

Genesis 13:14
And the Lorde saide vnto Abram, after that Lot was departed fro hym: Lyft vp thyne eyes nowe, and loke fro the place where thou art, northwarde, southward, eastwarde, and westward:

Genesis 19:17
And when he had brought them out, he sayde: Saue thy selfe, and loke not behynde thee, neither tary thou in all this playne [countrey] Saue thy selfe in the mountaine, lest thou perishe.

Psalms 16:3
But all my delyght is [to do good] vnto the saintes that are in the earth: and vnto such as excell in vertue.

Psalms 119:63
I am a companion of all them that feare thee: and kepe thy commaundementes.

Proverbs 27:10
Thyne owne frende and thy fathers frende see thou forsake not, and go not into thy brothers house in tyme of thy trouble: for better is a frende at hand, then a brother farre of.

Hebrews 10:25
Not forsakyng the assemblyng of our selues together, as the maner of some [is] but exhortyng one (another) and so much the more, as ye see the day approchyng.

1 Peter 2:17
Honour all men. Loue brotherly felowship. Feare God. Honour the kyng.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I contended with the rulers;.... The ecclesiastical rulers, the priests that were appointed over those chambers, Nehemiah 12:44, he expostulated with them warmly, and chode them severely for their conduct:

and said, why is the house of God forsaken? no care being taken of the maintenance of the ministers of it, contrary to the promise made

Nehemiah 10:37,

and l gathered them together; the Levites and singers that were dispersed in the countries round about:

and set them in their place; in the temple, and in the course of their ministry there.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I gathered them together - Nehemiah gathered the Levites from their lands, and reinstated them in their set offices.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 13:11. Why is the house of God forsaken? — They had all solemnly promised, Nehemiah 10:39, that they would never forsake the house of their God; but, alas, how soon is this forgotten! Nehemiah used their own words here by way of reproof.