At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God, Sermons
I. THE TRUE RELIGIOUS REFORMATION, both negative and positive. 1. Abuses must be vigorously attacked and cleansed away. The house of God has to be purified of strangers. The neglect of discipline a terrible evil. Unfaithful ministers the curse of the Church. The "mixed multitude" is no strength to Jerusalem, but weakness. The observance of the sabbath. To the Jew a typical commandment, which represented obedience altogether. While days cannot possess the same place under the new dispensation, there is guardianship of the day of rest which is absolutely necessary for the life of religion. In all active efforts of reformation personal caprice and mere self-assertion must be renounced. The open Bible must be the strong basis of operations, the unfailing armoury from which the weapons are taken. On that simply dependent, the true reformer can be bold, energetic, uncompromising, intolerant of evil, driving out the violators of God's law and defilers of his temple. We have a great example of consuming zeal in the Lord himself. 2. All really religious reformation will be constructive as well as destructive. The evil driven away will come back finding "the house empty and garnished" unless it be possessed by the spirit of active obedience. The only principle upon which we can keep out abuse is that of the right use of the things before abused. This applies to the service of God's house, to the observance of the sabbath, and to the purity of communion among God's people. Nehemiah re-established the true order of religious life. The safety of the Church lies in its activity and development according to the word of God. All living growth is defence against attack and decay. II. THE TRUE MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD AND MAN. "Remember me, Lord, for good." 1. We should cast ourselves on the faithfulness of God. Men forget one another. God rewards his servants. 2. To hold a place among the honoured names of God's word, to be in the line of the great succession, is more than all that this world can offer us. 3. God's blessing descends to future generations. We build a monument in the characters and lives of those we leave behind us. - R.
And both the singers. We have here the effects of the joy that was at the dedication of the wall.I. The ministers were more careful than they had been of their work. Ii. The people were more careful than they had been of the maintenance of their ministers. The surest way for ministers to recommend themselves to their people, and gain an interest in their affections, is to wait on their ministry, to be humble and industrious, and to mind their business; when these did so, the people thought nothing too much for them to encourage them. 1. Care is here taken for the collecting of their dues. 2. Care is taken that, being gathered in, it might be duly paid out. (Matthew Henry.) For in the days of David and Asaph of old. Homiletic Commentary. I. NOTHING IS NECESSARILY GOOD BECAUSE IT IS OLD. "Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?" Habit, education, tradition, prejudice, play an important part in history.II. THAT WHICH IS OLD IS PRESUMPTIVELY VALUABLE. Good lasts. Truth is as old as the hills. Application: Prove all things. Despise nothing. The present is a huge borrower from the dead past. (Homiletic Commentary.). People Artaxerxes, Balaam, Eliashib, Hanan, Israelites, Joiada, Levites, Mattaniah, Pedaiah, Sanballat, Shelemiah, Solomon, Tobiah, Tobijah, Tyrians, ZaccurPlaces Ammon, Ashdod, Babylon, Jerusalem, MoabTopics Admitted, Age, Aloud, Ammonite, Assembly, Audience, Book, Congregation, Ears, Enter, Forever, Hearing, Meeting, Moabite, Reading, Therein, WrittenOutline 1. Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the mixed multitude.4. Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be cleansed. 10. He reforms the offices in the house of God; 15. the violation of the Sabbath; 23. and the marriages with the strange wives. Dictionary of Bible Themes Nehemiah 13:1 5103 Moses, significance 1611 Scripture, inspiration and authority Library Sabbath Observance'In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals. 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The True Manner of Keeping Holy the Lord's Day. Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures The Last Days of the Old Eastern World The Formation of the Old Testament Canon Questions About the Nature and Perpetuity of the Seventh-Day Sabbath. Jesus Heals on the Sabbath Day and Defends his Act. Ezra-Nehemiah Links Nehemiah 13:1 NIVNehemiah 13:1 NLT Nehemiah 13:1 ESV Nehemiah 13:1 NASB Nehemiah 13:1 KJV Nehemiah 13:1 Bible Apps Nehemiah 13:1 Parallel Nehemiah 13:1 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 13:1 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 13:1 French Bible Nehemiah 13:1 German Bible Nehemiah 13:1 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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