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Nehemiah 13 — Sermon Preparation
After returning from Persia, Nehemiah corrects violations: Tobiah's room in the temple, neglected Levites, Sabbath commerce, and foreign marriages. Below is a research summary for Nehemiah 13, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 473 / 209
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Nehemiah 13 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁבָּת | shabbâth | H7676 | 10 | intermission, Sabbath |
| לֵוִיִּי | Lêvîyîy | H3881 | 7 | Levite |
| יְרוּשָׁלִַ͏ם | Yᵉrûwshâlaim | H3389 | 6 | Jerushalaim, Jerushalem |
| לִשְׁכָּה | lishkâh | H3957 | 4 | room |
| כֹּהֵן | kôhên | H3548 | 5 | officiating, priest |
| אֶלְיָשִׁיב | ʼElyâshîyb | H475 | 3 | Eljashib |
| טוֹבִיָּה | Ṭôwbîyâh | H2900 | 3 | Tobijah |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Nehemiah 13, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Israel was a peculiar people, and not to mingle with the nations. See the benefit of publicly reading the word of God; when it is duly attended to, it discovers to us sin and duty, good and evil, and shows wherein we have erred. We profit, when we are thus wrought upon to separate from evil. Those that would drive sin out of their hearts, the living temples, must throw out its household stuff, and all the provision made for it; and take away all the things that are the food and fuel of lust; this is really to mortify it. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Nehemiah 13:1–9 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Neh 13:15
- Tyre— Neh 13:16
- Ammon— Neh 13:23
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