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Nehemiah 13:20

in Nehemiah 13

Once or twice, the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So the merchants and sellers of all kind of wares lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

KJV

So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

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This verse in Nehemiah 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
For the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware,.... The Tyrians particularly, Neh 13:16 lodged without Jerusalem once or twice; one sabbath day or two, not being able to get into the city, such strict watch and care being taken to keep the gates shut; this they did, hoping the Jews would come out to them and buy their goods, though they were not admitted to bring them within the city.

This site's exposition

I ordered that the gates be shut

on Nehemiah 13:19-20

Then comes enforcement: he posts his own servants "so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day" (13:19). Turned away, the merchants "camped outside Jerusalem" once or twice rather than lose the trade.

This site's exposition

camped outside Jerusalem

Gill takes these merchants as chiefly the Tyrians of verse 16, shut out and camping in hope that buyers would come out to them. Barnes sees their impatience for the gates to open. It happened once or twice before Nehemiah's warning ended it.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Nehemiah took the decisive step of ordering the city gates to be shut, and not to be opened, till the Sabbath was past; and in order to ensure the faithful execution of this order, he stationed some of his own servants as guards, to prevent the introduction of any commodities on that day.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

So the merchants - lodged without Jerusalem - They exposed their wares for sale on the outside of the walls.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּלִ֨ינוּand they passed [the] night

    vaiyalinuH3885 →84 times

  • הָרֹכְלִ֜יםthe traders

    harokhelimH7402 →17 times

  • וּמֹכְרֵ֧יand [the] sellers of

    umokhereiH4376 →80 times

  • כָל־every

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מִמְכָּ֛רmerchandise

    mikarH4465 →

  • מִח֥וּץfrom [the] outside

    michutzH2351 →

  • לִירוּשָׁלִָ֖םof Jerusalem

    lirushalimH3389 →643 times

  • פַּ֥עַםa time

    paamH6471 →118 times

  • וּשְׁתָּֽיִם׃and two [times]

    ushetayimH8147 →768 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).

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