Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
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Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
Because they have defiled the priesthood - God, therefore, will remember their iniquities against them, and punish them for their transgressions. These words of Nehemiah are to be understood…
We have here one instance more of Nehemiah's pious zeal for the purifying of his countrymen as a peculiar people to God; that was the thing he aimed at in the use of his power, not the enriching of…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Remember them Here in a bad sense.
because they have defiled R.V. marg. -Heb. for the defilings of". The word so rendered occurs only here. It is from the same root as the word -Goel," which explains…
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