Nehemiah 8:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people;(for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

Nehemiah 8:5 —

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Cross-References

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Judges 3:20
And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
1 Kings 8:14
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel:(and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
Luke 4:16-17
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

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 the seventh month, Neh. 8:2. That was the day of the feast of trumpets, which is called a sabbath, and on which they were to have a holy convocation, Lev. 23:24; Num. 29:1. But that was not all: it w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. when he opened it, all the people stood up--This attitude they assumed either from respect to God’s word, or, rather, because the reading was prefaced by a solemn prayer, which was concluded by a general expression of “Amen, Amen.”