نِحِميا 8:4

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4 و عَزْرای‌ كاتب‌ بر منبر چوبی‌ كه‌ به‌ جهت‌ اینكار ساخته‌ بودند، ایستاد و به‌ پهلویش‌ از دست‌ راستش‌ مَتَّتْیا و شَمَع‌ و عَنایا و اُوریا و حِلْقیا و مَعَسْیا ایستادند و از دست‌ چپش‌، فدایا و مِیشائیل‌ و مَلْكِیا و حاشُوم‌ و حَشْبَدّانَه‌ و زَكَریا و مَشُلاّم‌.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pulpit: Heb. tower

Maaseiah: Nehemiah 10:25, Nehemiah 11:5

Malchiah: Nehemiah 10:3

Hashum: Nehemiah 10:18, Ezra 10:33

Meshullam: Nehemiah 10:7, Nehemiah 10:20, Nehemiah 11:7, Nehemiah 12:13, Ezra 10:29

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:7 - Sallu 2 Chronicles 6:13 - scaffold Ezra 7:6 - scribe Ezra 10:18 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 3:23 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 3:25 - Pedaiah Nehemiah 8:1 - Ezra Nehemiah 8:7 - Maaseiah Nehemiah 9:3 - they stood Nehemiah 13:13 - Pedaiah Matthew 23:2 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose,.... Or to speak out of, as the Syriac and Arabic versions; this, in the Hebrew text, is called a "tower" i, partly because of its height, and partly because in the form of one; and also for its largeness, considering the use it was for; for it was so large as to hold fourteen men, as appears by what follows: a pulpit of wood was made for the king in the court, to read the law from k; though, according to Jacob Leo, it was a throne like an high tower,

:-, the pulpits, in the Jewish synagogues, made after the same manner, as Aben Ezra observes, are called by the same l name:

and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah; and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam; in all thirteen; there were six on his right, and seven on his left, who stood here, not merely in honour to him, and as approvers and supporters of the truth of what he read, but to relieve him when weary.

i על מגדל עץ "super turrem ligni", Montanus; so Dionysius is said, "concionari ex turri alta", Ciceron. Tuscul. Quaest. l. 5. k Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 141. sect. 7. l Misn. Sotah, c. 7. sect. 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The 13 persons mentioned were probably the chief priests of the course (shift) which was at the time performing the temple service.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nehemiah 8:4. Stood upon a pulpit of wood — מגדל migdal, a tower, a platform, raised up for the purpose, to elevate him sufficiently for the people both to see and hear him; for it is said, Nehemiah 8:5, that he was above all the people. This is the first intimation we have of a pulpit, or structure of this kind. But we must not suppose that it was any thing similar to those tubs or barrels ridiculously set up in churches and chapels, in which a preacher is nearly as much confined, during the time of his preaching, as if he was in the stocks.