Nehemiah 8 · Verse 7

Nehemiah 8:7

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
Nehemiah 8:7, King James Version

Nehemiah 8:7 in other translations

BSBThe Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.
WEBAlso Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stayed in their place.
ASVAlso Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
YLTAnd Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, giving the people understanding in the law, and the people, are on their station,
DARBYAnd Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law; and the people stood in their place.
BBEAnd Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.
WebsterAlso Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

What does Nehemiah 8:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 8:7-8
7-8. caused the people to understand the law ... gave the sense--Commentators are divided in opinion as to the import of this statement. Some think that Ezra read the law in pure Hebrew, while the Levites, who assisted him, translated it sentence by sentence into Chaldee, the vernacular dialect which the exiles spoke in Babylon. Others maintain that the duty of these Levites consisted in explaining to the people, many of whom had become very ignorant, what Ezra had read.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nehemiah 8:1-8

Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as acceptably performed in one place as in another. Masters of families should bring their families with them to the public worship of God. Women and children have souls to save, and are therefore to acquaint themselves with the word of God, and to attend on the means of grace. Little ones, as…

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Nehemiah 8:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַve.ye.Shu.a'and JeshuaH3442
וּבָנִ֡יu.va.Niand BaniH1137
וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה\׀ve.she.Re.ve.Yahand SherebiahH8274
יָמִ֡יןya.MinJaminH3226
עַקּ֡וּב'a.KuvAkkubH6126
שַׁבְּתַ֣י\׀sha.be.TaiShabbethaiH7678
הֽוֹדִיָּ֡הho.di.YahHodiahH1941
מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡הma.'a.se.YahMaaseiahH4641
קְלִיטָ֣אke.li.Ta'KelitaH7042
עֲזַרְיָה֩'a.zar.YahAzariahH5838
יוֹזָבָ֨דyo.za.VadJozabadH3107
חָנָ֤ןcha.NanHananH2605
פְּלָאיָה֙pe.la.YahPelaiahH6411
וְהַלְוִיִּ֔םve.hal.vi.Yimand the LevitesH3881
מְבִינִ֥יםme.vi.Nim[were] causing to understandH995
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָעָ֖םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
לַתּוֹרָ֑הla.to.Rah<to> the lawH8451
וְהָעָ֖םve.ha.'Amand the peopleH5971
עַל\־'al-[were] atH5921
עָמְדָֽם\׃'a.me.Damplace theirH5977

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Cross references for Nehemiah 8:7

  • Nehemiah 9:4

    Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God.

  • Leviticus 10:11

    And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

  • Nehemiah 3:23

    After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

  • Ezra 10:22-23

    And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah. Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

  • Malachi 2:7

    For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

  • Nehemiah 11:16

    And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

  • Nehemiah 10:9-10

    And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

  • Nehemiah 12:33

    And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

  • Nehemiah 12:41-42

    And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets; And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

  • Ezra 8:18

    And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

  • 2 Chronicles 30:22

    And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chronicles 17:7-9

    Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben–hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob–adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jeshua.
3:19; 9:4; 10:9; 12:24
Bani.
3:17; 9:4; 10:13
Sherebiah.
9:4; 10:12; 12:24; Ezr 8:18
Akkub.
11:16,19; 12:25
Hodijah.
10:10,18
Maaseiah.
4; 3:23; 12:41,42; Ezr 10:22
Kelita.
10:10; Ezr 10:23
Azariah.
3:23; 10:2; 12:33
Jozabad.
Ezr 10:22,23
Hanan.
10:10
Pelaiah.
10:10
caused.
Le 10:11; De 33:10; 2Ch 17:7-9; 30:22; Mal 2:7

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Context

  • Nehemiah 8:6

    And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

  • Nehemiah 8:7

    Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

  • Nehemiah 8:8

    So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

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Nehemiah 8:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y Jesuá, y Bani, y Serebías, Jamín, Accub, Sabethai, Odías, Maasías, Celita, Azarías, Jozabed, Hanán, Pelaía, Levitas, hacían entender al pueblo la ley: y el pueblo estaba en su lugar.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Jéshua, et Bani, et Shérébia, Jamin, Akkub, Shabthaï, Hodija, Maascéïa, Kelita, Azaria, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaïa, et les lévites, faisaient comprendre la loi au peuple; et le peuple se tenait à sa place.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Jeschua und Bani und Scherebja, Jamin, Akkub, Schabbethai, Hodija, Maaseja, Kelita, Asarja, Josabad, Hanan, Pelaja und die Leviten belehrten das Volk über das Gesetz; und das Volk stand auf seiner Stelle.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Porro Josue, et Bani, et Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Septhai, Odia, Maasia, Celita, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan, Phalaia, Levitæ, silentium faciebant in populo ad audiendam legem: populus autem stabat in gradu suo.