Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 9:14
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
14. and madest known sabbath ] Cf. Eze 20:12. Apparently referring to the fourth Commandment (Exo 20:8-11. Cf. Exo 31:16). But it is to be noticed that the observance of the Sabbath is prescribed if not presupposed at the giving of the Manna (Exo 16:23-30) before the arrival at Sinai. The stricter observance of the Sabbath of Jehovah ( thy sabbath) was a special feature of religious purity, required by the teaching of Ezra and the Scribes, cf. Neh 13:15 (Isa 56:2; Isa 58:13). An observance of the Sabbath was perhaps common among Semitic races. It was certainly kept in Assyria. The command to keep the Sabbath holy set the stamp of Divine approval upon the native custom.
precepts, statutes, and laws ] R.V. commandments, and statutes, and a law. ‘A law,’ i.e. religious instruction as distinguished from positive rules.
Moses thy servant ] Cf. Neh 1:7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 14. Madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath] They appear to have forgotten this first of all the commandments of God, during their sojourning in Egypt.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Thy holy sabbath; that holy and blessed sabbath day which thou didst bless and sanctify to Adam in Paradise, Gen 2:3, commanding him, and in him all his posterity, to observe it, which yet almost all people and nations have quite forgotten, yea, so far as to mock at them, Lam 1:7, thou didst graciously reveal unto thy people, reviving that ancient law by another particular law about it given to us in the wilderness.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath,…. Which was not made known to others, and was peculiar to the Jewish nation, and a privilege granted to them, to have rest corporeal and spiritual, typical of the rest in Christ:
and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant; moral, ceremonial, and judicial, such as other nations had not, De 4:8.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(14) Madest known unto them thy holy sabbath.Every word here, as well as the prominence given to this among the other commandments, must be noted as illustrating the importance of this ordinance in the covenant of chapter 10 and throughout the book.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Neh 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Ver. 14. And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath ] Not then first known to the Church; but of old observed, even from the beginning, Gen 2:3 , about 2514 years before it was made known in such a solemn sort at Sinai; as having been much neglected and forgotten during the Egyptian servitude. So it was by the German Churches, till God awakened them by the loss of Prague (that first blow given them), and that upon the Sabbath day, which they kept not otherwise than if it had been Dies daemoniacus, the devil’s day, and not Dominicus the Lord’s day, (as their countryman Alsted complaineth), and as if it had been called Sabbath, from Sabbos, a name of Bacchus, as Plutarch dreamed.
And commandedst them precepts
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
madest known . . . Thy, &c. Jehovah’s Sabbath was in Gen 2:1-3. Made known to Israel (Exo 20:9-11). Established as a sign (Exo 31:13-17).
holy. See note on Exo 3:5.
sabbath = cessation (from work), rest. This rest was made for man (Mar 2:27).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
madest known unto them
This important passage fixes beyond all cavil the time when the sabbath, God’s rest Gen 2:1-3 was given to man. Cf. Exo 20:9-11. In Exo 31:13-17 the sabbath is invested with the character of a sign between Jehovah and Israel. (See Scofield “Mat 12:1”).
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
madest: Gen 2:3, Exo 16:29, Exo 20:8-11, Eze 20:12, Eze 20:20
commandedst: Exo 21:1 – Exo 23:33, Lev 27:34, Deu 4:5, Deu 4:45, Deu 5:31
Moses: Neh 1:8, Joh 1:17
Reciprocal: Exo 16:25 – General Exo 18:20 – teach Exo 31:13 – a sign Exo 31:14 – keep Lev 10:11 – General Lev 15:2 – unto the Lev 23:14 – it shall be 2Ki 17:37 – wrote for you Psa 103:7 – He made Psa 119:66 – I Have Eze 18:9 – walked Eze 20:11 – I gave Eze 20:19 – walk Hos 8:12 – written Mar 2:27 – General Mar 12:1 – and set Act 7:38 – who Rom 2:18 – knowest Rom 3:2 – because Rom 9:4 – the giving Heb 3:5 – as Rev 15:3 – the servant
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neh 9:14. And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath That holy sabbath day which thou didst bless and sanctify to Adam, commanding him, and in him all his posterity, to observe it, which yet almost all nations have quite forgotten; that day thou didst graciously reveal unto thy people, reviving that ancient law by another particular law respecting it, given to us in the wilderness. The Holy Scriptures speak of the sabbath as a singular gift of God to the Jewish nation, Exo 16:29; it being a sign between God and them, who sanctified, that is, separated them from all other nations to be his peculiar people, or to be the worshippers of him who created the world in six days and rested in the seventh, while the heathen nations worshipped the sun, moon, and stars, and other creatures.