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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Nehemiah 8:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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8:9-10 Ezra the priest and scribe: See study note on Ezra 7:6. • Don’t mourn or weep . . . today is a sacred day: God touched the people’s hearts, prompting them to regret their failures to keep God’s laws. While weeping is an appropriate response to sin (see Ezek 9:4; Luke 6:21), Ezra and Nehemiah encouraged the people to rejoice at what God had done. Because this New Year’s festival was to be a time of joy (Num 29:1-6), weeping would have destroyed the spirit of the day.
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