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.
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Gill's Exposition
Then I contended with the nobles,.... The rulers of the city, the civil magistrates, sharply reproved them for their neglect of duty:
and said unto them, what evil thing is this that ye do, and…
Barnes' Notes
The desecration of the Sabbath is first brought into prominence among the sins of the Jewish people by Jeremiah Jer 17:21-27. It could not but have gained ground during the captivity, when foreign…
Adam Clarke
Treading wine-presses - The Sabbath appears to have been totally disregarded.
Here is another instance of that blessed reformation in which Nehemiah was so active. He revived sabbath-sanctification, and maintained the authority of the fourth commandment; and a very good deed…
Cambridge Bible
Nehemiah's vindication of the Sabbath
15. Jewish Labour on the Sabbath.
saw I in Judah i.e. while Nehemiah was residing in the country.
treading wine presses For the phrase cf. Isa 63:2; Lam 1:15.
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