Nehemja 13:1

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that day: Some suppose that the events recorded in these verses took place several years after those related in the preceding chapter, while Nehemiah was absent at the Persian court; but the introductory language, on that day, seems rather to imply that they occurred immediately, or at least about that time.

they read: Heb. there was read, Nehemiah 8:3-8, Nehemiah 9:3, Deuteronomy 31:11, Deuteronomy 31:12, 2 Kings 23:2, Isaiah 34:16, Luke 4:16-19, Luke 10:26, Acts 13:15, Acts 15:21

audience: Heb. ears

the Ammonite: Nehemiah 13:23, Deuteronomy 23:3-5, Isaiah 15:1 - Isaiah 16:14, Jeremiah 48:1-47, Ezekiel 25:1-11, Amos 2:1-3

Moabite: Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 4:3, Psalms 83:7-9, Jeremiah 49:1-6, Amos 1:13-15

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:38 - children Genesis 35:12 - to Numbers 22:5 - sent Deuteronomy 23:1 - shall not enter Joshua 8:31 - as it is Joshua 8:34 - he read 2 Samuel 10:2 - show kindness 2 Kings 22:10 - Shaphan 1 Chronicles 19:2 - the children 2 Chronicles 12:13 - an Ammonitess Ezra 7:25 - teach ye Ezra 9:1 - Ammonites Ezra 10:3 - let it Nehemiah 13:7 - in preparing Lamentations 1:10 - whom 2 Corinthians 6:14 - unequally

Gill's Notes on the Bible

On that day,.... Not when the wall of the city was dedicated, nor quickly after; for it cannot be thought that people should be so corrupted so soon as this chapter shows; but when Nehemiah had governed them twelve years, and had been at Babylon, and was returned again, as appears from Nehemiah 13:6, compared with Nehemiah 2:1,

they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; for from the time of the reading of the law by Ezra, Nehemiah 8:1 it became a custom to read the law publicly:

and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of the Lord; that is, be admitted to marry with any of the people of Israel; Nehemiah 8:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On that day - Or, “at that time,” as in Nehemiah 12:44.

The entire Pentateuch is probably meant by “the Book of Moses”.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIII

The law is read, which commands that the Ammonite and Moabite

should be separated from the congregation, on which they

separate all the mixed multitude, 1-3.

Eliashib the high priest having not only joined opinion with

Sanballat, but being also allied to Tobiah the Ammonite, and

having given him some of the chambers in the court of the house

of God, 4, 5;

Nehemiah casts out the goods of Tobiah, and purifies the

chambers, 6-9.

He rectifies several evils; and the people bring the tithes of

all things to the treasuries, 10-12.

He appoints treasurers, 13, 14;

finds that the Sabbaths had been greatly profaned by buying and

selling, and rectifies this abuse, 15-22;

finds Jews that had married strange wives; against whom he

testifies, and expels one of the priests who had married the

daughter of Sanballat the Horonite, 23-29.

He cleanses them from all strangers, makes a final regulation,

and prays for God's mercy to himself, 30, 31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII

Verse Nehemiah 13:1. On that day — I am quite of Calmet's mind that the transaction detailed in this chapter did not immediately succeed the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem. It is most likely that, when this dedication was ended, Nehemiah returned to Babylon, as himself particularly marks, Nehemiah 13:6, for he did return in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes; and then, after certain days, supposed to be about the term of one year, he got leave to return to Jerusalem to see how matters were conducted: and there he found the evils which he mentions in this chapter, and which he redressed in the manner himself describes. See the introduction to this book.

Should not come into the congregation — That is, Ye shall not form any kind of matrimonial alliance with them. This, and this alone, is the meaning of the law.