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Nehemiah 12:43

in Nehemiah 12

On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

KJV

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

This verse in Nehemiah 12

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah · Written before 735.

And they sacrificed great victims on that day, etc. On that day of perpetual light (about which Zachariah said: And there shall be one day which is known to the Lord, not day nor night: that is, removed from the experience of passing times) the …

This site's exposition

Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai

on Nehemiah 12:41-43

Seven priests sound trumpets and the singers, led by their overseer Jezrahiah, sing loud enough that the chapter records it. Great sacrifices follow, and verse forty-three names the source of the day's joy plainly: God had made them rejoice, not the choir or the wall itself, and the joy reaches wives and children both, a household celebration rather than a leaders' ceremony. The joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off, and Spurgeon preached this verse alongside the joy of the Lord is your strength from chapter 8 as one sermon, the strength and the sound of the same joy.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

on Nehemiah 12:42-43

The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People A Sermon (No. 1027) Delivered on Lord’s Day Morning, December 31st, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington “The joy of the Lord is your strength.”—Nehemiah 8:10. “And the singers sang aloud, with Jezrahiah their overseer. Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.”—Nehemiah 12:42-43.

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּand they sacrificed

    vaiyizbechuH2076

  • בַיּוֹם־on the day

    vaiyom-H31172304 times

  • הַ֠הוּא<the> that

    hahu'H19311879 times

  • זְבָחִ֨יםsacrifices

    zevachimH2077

  • גְּדוֹלִ֜יםgreat

    gedolimH1419526 times

  • וַיִּשְׂמָ֗חוּand they rejoiced

    vaiyismachuH8055155 times

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • הָאֱלֹהִים֙<the> God

    haelohimH4302601 times

  • שִׂמְּחָם֙he had made rejoice them

    simechamH8055155 times

  • שִׂמְחָ֣הjoy

    simchahH805794 times

  • גְדוֹלָ֔הgreat

    gedolahH1419526 times

  • וְגַ֧םand also

    vegamH1571769 times

  • הַנָּשִׁ֛יםthe women

    hanashimH802781 times

  • וְהַיְלָדִ֖יםand the children

    vehayladimH3206

  • שָׂמֵ֑חוּthey rejoiced

    samechuH8055155 times

  • וַתִּשָּׁמַ֛עand it was heard

    vatishama'H80851159 times

  • שִׂמְחַ֥ת[the] rejoicing of

    simchatH805794 times

  • יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389643 times

  • מֵרָחֽוֹק׃from a distance

    merachokH7350

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

    John 16:22

    So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 1:8

      Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 31:13

    Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 30:11

      You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

    • Isaiah 61:3

      to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be…

    • Isaiah 51:11

      So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

    • Isaiah 51:3

      For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…

  • Through

    Psalms 92:4

    For You, O LORD, have made me glad by Your deeds; I sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

    it leads to

    • 2 Corinthians 2:14

      But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.

    • Psalms 8:6

      You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:

    • Luke 1:47

      and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!

About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; Charles Spurgeon, The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People (Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 1027); Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1027: “The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.