Admonished Asses Bringing Burden Burdens Corn Crushing Donkeys Figs Forewarned Getting Goods Grain Grapes Heaps Jerusalem Judah Kinds Lading Loading Loads Manner Marketing Presses Protested Provision Provisions Putting Sabbath Sabbath-day Sacks Selling Sheaves Sold Sorts Testified Testify Therewith Treading Victuals Warned Wherein Wine Winepresses Wine-presses Wine-vats Witness Yea
13:15 In those days saw I in Judah [some] treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all [manner of] burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and {g} I testified [against them] in the day wherein they sold victuals.
(g) I declared to them that God would not allow such transgressors of his law to go unpunished.
13:15-22 The keeping holy the Lord's day forms an important object for their attention who would promote true godliness. Religion never prospers while sabbaths are trodden under foot. No wonder there was a general decay of religion, and corruption of manners among the Jews, when they forsook the sanctuary and profaned the sabbath. Those little consider what an evil they do, who profane the sabbath. We must answer for the sins others are led to commit by our example. Nehemiah charges it on them as an evil thing, for so it is, proceeding from contempt of God and our own souls. He shows that sabbath-breaking was one of the sins for which God had brought judgments upon them; and if they did not take warning, but returned to the same sins again, they had to expect further judgments. The courage, zeal, and prudence of Nehemiah in this matter, are recorded for us to do likewise; and we have reason to think, that the cure he wrought was lasting. He felt and confessed himself a sinner, who could demand nothing from God as justice, when he thus cried unto him for mercy.
Asses Burdens Donkeys Figs Grapes Jerusalem Judah Manner Provisions Sabbath Sheaves Sold Testified Therewith Treading Wherein Wine Winepresses
Asses Burdens Donkeys Figs Grapes Jerusalem Judah Manner Provisions Sabbath Sheaves Sold Testified Therewith Treading Wherein Wine Winepresses
