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2And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

Nehemiah 9:2

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  • Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

  • And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: …

  • Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

  • Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

  • And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

We have here a general account of a public fast which the children of Israel kept, probably by order from Nehemiah, by and with the advice and consent of the chief of the fathers. It was a fast that men appointed, but such a fast as God had chosen ; for, 1. It was a day to afflict the soul , Isa. 58:5. Probably they assembled in the courts of the temple, and they there appeared in sackcloth and in…

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