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Nehemiah 13:18

King James Version (KJV)

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Nehemiah 13:18

Verse 18 of 31

Scripture focus

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:18 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nehemiah 13:18

Theological / Devotional

Did not your fathers? The desecration of the Sabbath is among the sins most strongly denounced by Jeremiah (ch. 17:21-27) and Ezekiel (chs. 20:13; 22:8, 26; 23:38). According to Amos (ch. 8:5) the Sabbath had been kept more in the letter than in the spirit. Nehemiah also reminds the Jews that the great catastrophes under Nebuchadnezzar had come as a result of the violation of the fourth commandment by their ancestors, as Jeremiah had predicted (ch. 17:27) a prophecy Nehemiah may have had in mind.

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