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Nehemiah 9:5

in Nehemiah 9

Then the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah—said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting: Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

KJV

Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

This verse in Nehemiah 9

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Stand up - The people had knelt to confess and to worship God Neh 9:3. They were now to take the proper attitude for praise. Compare throughout the margin reference.

This site's exposition

cried with a loud voice

on Nehemiah 9:4-5

Named Levites stand upon a raised platform, which Gill reads as the place where the Levites had always stood to be seen and heard, and cry to the Lord their God with a loud voice fit for a crowd this size. A second company then calls the people to their feet with an imperative, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever, and the prayer that follows addresses a God whose glorious name is exalted above all blessing and praise. Matthew Henry treats the recital as a directory the Levites had prepared beforehand, since confessing and worshipping God for two fourths of a day required more order than a single unrehearsed voice could carry. The congregation's posture turns from kneeling confession to standing praise between one verse and the next.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The congregation is called upon to signify their concurrence herewith by standing up; and so the minister directs himself to God, Blessed be thy glorious name. As the only living and true God: Thou art Jehovah alone, self-existent and independent; there is no God besides thee. As the Creator of all things: Thou hast made heaven, earth, and seas, and all that is in them.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the L ORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the L ORD their God.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Then the Levites . . . said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God--If this prayer was uttered by all these Levites in common, it must have been prepared and adopted beforehand, perhaps, by Ezra; but it may only embody the substance of the confession and thanksgiving.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Stand up and bless the Lord your God - It is the shameless custom of many congregations of people to sit still while they profess to bless and praise God, by singing the Psalms of David or hymns made on the plan of the Gospel! I ask such persons, Did they ever feel the spirit of devotion while thus employed? If they do, it must be owned that, by the prevalence of habit, they have counteracted the influence of an attitude most friendly to such acts of devotion.

The words behind it

27 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.

  • וַיֹּאמְר֣וּand they said

    vaiyomeruH5595305 times

  • הַלְוִיִּ֡םthe Levites

    halviyimH3881291 times

  • יֵשׁ֣וּעַJeshua

    yeshua'H344229 times

  • וְ֠קַדְמִיאֵלand Kadmiel

    vekadmielH69348 times

  • בָּנִ֨יBani

    baniH113716 times

  • חֲשַׁבְנְיָ֜הHashabneiah

    chashavneyahH2813

  • שֵׁרֵֽבְיָ֤הSherebiah

    shereveyahH82748 times

  • הֽוֹדִיָּה֙Hodiah

    hodiyahH19415 times

  • שְׁבַנְיָ֣הShebaniah

    shevanyahH76457 times

  • פְתַֽחְיָ֔הPethahiah

    fetachyahH6611

  • ק֗וּמוּarise

    kumuH6965628 times

  • בָּרֲכוּ֙bless

    barakhuH1288330 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔םGod your

    ʾeloheikhemH4302601 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H44801188 times

  • הָעוֹלָ֖ם<the> antiquity

    haolamH5769438 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • הָעוֹלָ֑ם<the> perpetuity

    haolamH5769438 times

  • וִיבָֽרְכוּ֙and may people bless

    vivarekhuH1288330 times

  • שֵׁ֣ם[the] name of

    shemH8034864 times

  • כְּבוֹדֶ֔ךָglory your

    kevodekhaH3519

  • וּמְרוֹמַ֥םand [may it] be exalted

    umeromamH7311

  • עַל־above

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • בְּרָכָ֖הblessing

    berakhahH1293

  • וּתְהִלָּֽה׃and praise

    utehilahH8416

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

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Corinthians 4:6

    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 60:2

      For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

    • Genesis 1:3

      And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

    • 1 Peter 2:9

      But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

    • 2 Peter 1:19

      We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…

  • Through

    1 Peter 1:3

    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 1:23

      For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

    • 1 John 5:4

      because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

    • Romans 15:13

      Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

    • Titus 3:4–6

      But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

Where this verse is studied

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.

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 & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.