John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 13:31

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And for the wood offering, at times appointed, etc.] Of which (see <161034>Nehemiah 10:34). Levites were appointed to receive the wood that was brought at the times and by the persons fixed, and lay it up in its proper place, and carry it to the altar when wanted: and for the first fruits; to receive and take care of them, and distribute them to the persons to whom they belonged: remember me, O my God, for good; to bless him with all good things, temporal and spiritual, to keep him faithful, to make him useful in church and state, and protect him from all his enemies: or rather this may respect what goes before, that as to the wood offering and the firstfruits, that God would graciously remember him as to them, since the one was as necessary to the altar as the other was to those that minister at it. FOOTNOTES Ft1 -- T. Bab. Succah, fol. 37. 1. & Gloss. in ib. fol. 12. 1. Ft2 -- Cyropaedia, l. 8. c. 44. Ft3 -- Athenaeus, l. 12. c. 1. Ft4 -- Cartwright’s Preacher’s Travels, p. 87, 88. Ft5 -- Hist. Relig. Vet. Pers. c. 35. p. 414. Ft6 -- Tavernier, tom. 1. l. 4. c. 1. Ft7 -- Herodot. Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 34. Xenophon. Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 36. Ft8 -- Vid. Athenaei Deipnosophist. l. 10. Ft9 -- Homer. Iliad. 21. ver. 234. Ft10 -- Homer. Iliad. 1. prope finem. Ft11 -- Misn. Roshhashanah, c. 1. sect. 3. Ft12 -- T. Bab. Rashhashanah, fol. 3. 1. Ft13 -- Cyropaedia, l. 1. c. 11. Ft14 -- Vid. Heliodor. Ethiopic. l. 7. c. 27. Ft15 -- bl r ponhria kardiav, Sept. “malum nescio quod in corde tuo est”, V. L. [ Ft16 -- Herodot. Polymnia, sive l. 7. c. 1. Ft17 -- Ptolem. Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 23. Ft18 -- Vid. Servium in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 2. ver. 485. Ft19 -- Travels, par. 3. c. 3. p. 227. Ft20 -- Travels, par. 3. c. 3. p. 226, 228. Ft21 -- Vid. Quistorp. in loc. Ft22 -- Chorograph. Cent. of the Land of Israel, c. 26. p. 27. vol. 2. Ft23 -- Ut supra, (Travels, par. 3. c. 3.) p. 226, 227. Ft24 -- Ut supra. (Chorograph. Cent. of the Land of Israel, c. 26. p. 27. vol. 2.) Ft25 -- De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2, 3. Ft26 -- Ut supra. (De Bello Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 2, 3.) Ft27 -- hkwra htl “ascendisset longitudo”, Montanus; so Coeceius in rad. ra. [ Æ Ft28 -- Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. Ft29 -- hwt wl tw l “ad faciendum ei errorem”, Montanus; “ei aberrationem”, Genevenses; “vagationem et palationem”, alii apud De Dieu. [ ç[ Ft30 -- Ebr. Concord. Partic. p. 322. Ft31 -- Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 4. c. 1. Ft32 -- Misn. Gittin, c. 4. sect. 9. Ft33 -- Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. Ft34 -- Florus, l. 2. c. 6. Liv. l. 21. c. l8. Ft35 -- Seder Olam Zuta, p. 108, 109. Ft36 -- Hist. l. 7. c. 6. Justin e Trogo, l. 12. c. 5. Ft37 -- Hist. l. 14. c. 1. Ft38 -- Antiqu. l. 11. c. 5. sect. 8. Ft39 -- wzaw “et tractate”, Junius & Tremellius; “contrectate eas”, Piscator. j Ft40 -- Apud Euseb. Praepar. par. Evangel. l. 9. c. 4. p. 408. & apud Joseph. contr. Apion, l. 1. c. 22. Ft41 -- De Bell. Jud. l. 5. c. 4. sect. 3. Ft42 -- Melpomene, sive, l. 4. c. 166. Ft43 -- Scholiast. in Aristoph. Eccles. p. 741, 742. So Harpocration. Lexic. in voce dardikov, and Suidas on the same word. Ft44 -- Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 115. Ft45 -- De Ponder & Pret. Vet. Num. c. 4. Ft46 -- Hilchot Tephillah, c. 12. sect. 9. Ft47 -- U ldgm l “super turrem ligni”, Montanus; so Dionysius is said, “concionari ex turri alta”, Ciceron. Tuscul. Quaest. l. 5. [ [ Ft48 -- Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 141. sect. 7. Ft49 -- Misn. Sotah, c. 7. sect. 8. Ft50 -- T. Bab. Megill…

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