And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
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Gill's Exposition
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation,.... Having a perfect copy of it, which the people knew, and therefore desired him to bring it; he brought it either out of his own case or…
Barnes' Notes
Upon the first day of the seventh month - The day of the “Feast of Trumpets” (see the margin reference note). The gathering together of the people, spoken of in Neh 8:1, was probably to observe this…
Adam Clarke
All that could hear with understanding - Infants, idiots, and children not likely to receive instruction, were not permitted to attend this meeting; nor should any such, in any place, be ever brought…
We have here an account of a solemn religious assembly, and the good work that was done in that assembly, to the honour of God and the edification of the church.
I. The time of it was the first day of…
Cambridge Bible
Ezra the priest cf. Ezr 7:1; Ezr 7:11.
the law i.e. the book of the law. Cf. 2Co 3:14 -the old covenant" for -the book of the old covenant." The word -Torah" is here used in the sense, which…
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