Neemia 13:22

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Am poruncit şi Leviţilor să se curăţească, şi să vină să păzească porţile, ca să sfinţească ziua Sabatului.

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I commanded: Nehemiah 7:64, Nehemiah 7:65, Nehemiah 12:30, 2 Kings 23:4, 1 Chronicles 15:12-14, 2 Chronicles 29:4, 2 Chronicles 29:5, 2 Chronicles 29:24, 2 Chronicles 29:27, 2 Chronicles 29:30, Isaiah 49:23

cleanse: Nehemiah 12:10

sanctify: Deuteronomy 5:12

Remember: Nehemiah 13:14, Nehemiah 13:31, Nehemiah 5:19, Psalms 132:1-5, Isaiah 38:3, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Timothy 4:8

spare me: Psalms 25:6, Psalms 25:7, Psalms 51:1, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:4, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:2

greatness: or, multitude, Psalms 5:7, Isaiah 55:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Genesis 19:29 - that God Leviticus 2:2 - the memorial Numbers 1:50 - thou shalt Joshua 3:8 - command 2 Kings 20:3 - remember Psalms 26:11 - and Psalms 106:4 - Remember Psalms 112:6 - the righteous Psalms 119:159 - Consider Jeremiah 15:15 - remember Malachi 3:17 - and I 2 Timothy 1:16 - Lord Hebrews 6:10 - to forget

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves,.... From all ceremonial uncleanness, that they might be fit in a ceremonial sense to perform the duties of the office on the sabbath day:

and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day; not the gates of the city, his servants were placed there, nor was this the work of the Levites, and much less did this require a particular purification to fit for it; but the gates of the temple, that no impure person might enter there; and on that day it required the greater diligence, because of the number of people that came to worship:

remember me, O my God, concerning this also; with respect to his care to have the sabbath kept holy, as well as his concern for the honour of the house of God, and the maintenance of his ministers, Nehemiah 13:14,

and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy; he desired to be dealt with, not according to any merits of his own, but according to the abundant mercy of God; that he would kindly and graciously vouchsafe to accept any good that he had done for his mercy sake, and forgive whatever was amiss in him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I commanded the Levites - At first Nehemiah had employed his own retinue Nehemiah 13:19 in the work of keeping the gates. He now assigned the duty to the Levites, as one which properly belonged to them, since the object of the regulation was the due observance of the Sabbath.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. Spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy. — By some Nehemiah has been thought to deal with God too much on the principle of merit. That he wished God to remember him for good, is sufficiently evident; and who does not wish the same? But that he expected heaven because of his good deeds, does not appear. Indeed, the concluding clause of this verse proves the contrary, and shows that he expected nothing from God but through the greatness of his mercy. Shame on those who, with this evidence before them, brand this good man with the epithet of workmonger! a man who, in inward holiness, outward usefulness, and genuine love to God and man, was worth ten score of such self-called believers.