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نِحِميا 9:4
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BakerEncyclopedias:
- InternationalBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
stairs: or, scaffold
Jeshua: Nehemiah 9:5, Nehemiah 8:7, Nehemiah 10:9-13, Nehemiah 12:8
cried: 2 Chronicles 20:19, Psalms 3:4, Psalms 77:1, Psalms 130:1, Lamentations 3:8, John 11:43, Acts 7:60
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:33 - pray Ezra 8:18 - Sherebiah Nehemiah 10:10 - Shebaniah Nehemiah 10:12 - Sherebiah Nehemiah 11:22 - Bani Nehemiah 12:24 - Hashabiah Ezekiel 43:17 - look toward
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites,.... On an ascent; an elevated place where the Levites used to stand when they sang at the time of sacrifice, and where they might be seen and heard by the people:
Jeshua and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; who seem to be all Levites, see Nehemiah 8:7,
and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God; praying with great fervency, and making bitter lamentation for the sins of the people and their own.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Septuagint and the Vulgate remove the comma after “stairs.” By the “stairs (or scaffold) of the Levites” is to be understood as an elevated platform from which they could the better address and lead the people (compare Nehemiah 8:4).
