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Nehemiah

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Now those who sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah, See also: Nehemiah 9:38 Nehemiah 8:9 Nehemiah 1:1Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, See also: Nehemiah 11:11 Nehemiah 12:1 Nehemiah 12:33-34Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah, See also: Nehemiah 12:2 Nehemiah 8:4 Nehemiah 11:12Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, See also: Nehemiah 12:14 Nehemiah 12:2 Nehemiah 3:10Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, See also: Nehemiah 12:3 Nehemiah 3:11 Nehemiah 3:4Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, See also: Nehemiah 12:4 Nehemiah 3:20Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, See also: Nehemiah 8:4 Nehemiah 12:17 Nehemiah 12:41Maaziah, Bilgai, and Shemaiah. These were the priests. See also: Ezra 10:21 Nehemiah 12:5-6 Nehemiah 12:18The Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; See also: Nehemiah 12:8 Nehemiah 3:18-19 Nehemiah 9:4and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, See also: Nehemiah 8:7 Ezra 10:23 Nehemiah 9:4-5Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, See also: Nehemiah 11:15 Ezra 8:19 Ezra 8:24Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, See also: Nehemiah 9:4 Nehemiah 8:7 Nehemiah 12:8Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu. The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, See also: Nehemiah 7:8 Nehemiah 7:11-13 Nehemiah 7:15Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, See also: Ezra 10:28 Ezra 2:11-12 Ezra 8:11-12Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, See also: Nehemiah 7:19-21 Ezra 2:14-16 Ezra 8:14Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, See also: Ezra 2:17-70 Nehemiah 7:22-73Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, See also: Nehemiah 3:17-32Ahiah, Hanan, Anan, Malluch, Harim, and Baanah. The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters—everyone who had knowledge and understanding— See also: Nehemiah 9:2 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 Jeremiah 4:2joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; See also: Ezekiel 36:27 Psalms 119:106 John 15:14and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; See also: Deuteronomy 7:3 Exodus 34:16 Ezra 9:1-3and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt. See also: Nehemiah 13:15-22 Leviticus 23:3 Exodus 23:10-11Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: See also: Exodus 30:11-16 Matthew 17:24-27 2 Corinthians 8:12for the show bread, for the continual meal offering, for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. See also: 2 Chronicles 2:4 Leviticus 24:5-6 Numbers 28:1-29We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn on the LORD our God’s altar, as it is written in the law; See also: Nehemiah 13:31 Isaiah 40:16 Leviticus 6:12-13and to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to the LORD’s house; See also: Deuteronomy 26:2 Exodus 23:19 Exodus 34:26also the firstborn of our sons and of our livestock, as it is written in the law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; See also: Exodus 13:2 Leviticus 27:26-27 Exodus 13:12-15and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all our farming villages. See also: Leviticus 23:17 Numbers 18:21 Deuteronomy 26:2The priest, the descendent of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes. The Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house. See also: Nehemiah 13:12-13 Numbers 18:26-28 2 Chronicles 31:11-12For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the wave offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the rooms where the vessels of the sanctuary are, and the priests who minister, with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not forsake the house of our God. See also: 2 Chronicles 31:12 Hebrews 10:25 Numbers 18:30

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)12 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

Nehemiah 10:1

Ver. 1. Athersatha. Heb. hatirshatha. Prot. "the tirshatha," cup-bearer, or governor, highly (H.)

"privileged" and honoured by Artaxerxes. W. --- Heb. "And over those who were sealed, (C.

Sept. or who sealed the deed. H.) Nehemias, the cup-bearer." Esdras, Eliasib,

&c. were also princes. C. --- It is not easy to account for the omission of their names. M. --- They may be designated by different titles. An aristocracy, mixed with oligarchy, was the present form of government. The advice of the ancients, and of the people, was taken. C. --- Hachelai, is less properly styled Helchias; (C. i. 1.) where the Sept. read Chelchias, or Achalia, (Heb. chacala) as well as here.

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Nehemiah 10:8

Ver. 8. Priests. All, at least after Nehemias. H.

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Nehemiah 10:14

Ver. 14. Pharos. Many of these are mentioned as returning from Babylon. C. vii.

8. 11. &c.

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Nehemiah 10:28

Ver. 28. Lands. Idolaters, (H.) namely, the proselytes. M. --- Daughters. These did not all subscribe in person, but by the hands of the intelligent, and chief men, (v. 29.) or, (C.) as the Sept.

seem to understand, these went through the different ranks of the people, and received their oaths.

E. M.

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Nehemiah 10:29

Ver. 29. Understand. Heb. mebin, "the teachers," or Levites. 1 Esd. viii. 16. M.

--- Promising.

Heb. "clave to their brethren;" and they promised with a curse to transgressors, and with an oath to walk, &c. H.

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Nehemiah 10:30

Ver. 30. And. In all covenants, the articles which have been chiefly broken, are specified. W.

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Nehemiah 10:31

Ver. 31. Holy day. The contrary practice is therefore sinful. H. --- Year. Not cultivating the land.

Lev. xxv. 4. --- Hand. No debts were to be demanded. Deut. xv. 1. M.

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Nehemiah 10:32

Ver. 32. Third part. About 9 d. (H.) on account of the poverty of the people. C. ---

They afterwards paid half a sicle, or 1 s. 2 d. conformably to the law. Ex. xxx.

13. Mat. xvii. 23. H. ---

Before the captivity, the kings of Juda provided sacrifices, (2 Par. xxxi. 3.) and after, the Persian monarchs supplied what was requisite, in favour of Zorababel and Esdras. C. vi. 8. and vii. 21.

But these grants had been recalled, or were not well executed.

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Nehemiah 10:34

Ver. 34. Wood. The Nathinites had performed this office till the captivity. But not their numbers were too small. C. --- The people therefore brought the wood. The Levites, with the Nathinites, carried it into the temple, and the priests laid it upon the altars; all being regulated by lots. Lyran.

--- Hence the feast called Xylophoria, was instituted about the month of August, as we may gather from Josephus. The Rabbins say that the priests cut the wood, from March till the 15th of July.

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Nehemiah 10:35

Ver. 35. Every tree, of seven species; the pear, apple, fig, apricot, olive, palm, and vine trees; besides wheat, legumes, &c. C. --- For three years the fruit was deemed unclean. Lev. xix. 23.

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Nehemiah 10:37

Ver. 37. Meats. Heb. "paste." Num. xv. 20. C. and xxiii. 17. --- Ground, or the produce. M.

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Nehemiah 10:38

Ver. 38. With. To observe that all is done according to the law. Num. xviii. 26. C.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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