So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
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Gill's Exposition
In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in Act 8:40, was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of…
Adam Clarke
So the merchants - lodged without Jerusalem - They exposed their wares for sale on the outside of the walls.
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
So the merchants, &c. The device only partially succeeded; and various merchants, who had been compelled for 24 hours to remain without the walls, seem to have carried on their trade with such of the…