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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Nehemiah 9 In this chapter we have an account of a fast kept by the Jews, which was observed, as by outward acts of humiliation, so by confession of sin, reading the law, and worshipping the Lord, Ne 9:1 and of a long prayer that the Levites made, in which they celebrate the divine perfections, take notice of various instances of the goodness of God to the people of Israel,...
John Gill
Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai,.... By some visible tokens of his presence, as a cloud, fire, smoke, c. which must be understood consistent with his omniscience, see Exodus 19:18, and spakest with them from heaven the decalogue or ten commandments, Exodus 20:1, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments; both judicial and ceremonial, which were of...
Matthew Henry
The tenth day of the seventh month between the feast of trumpets (ch. viii. 2) and the feast of tabernacles (ver. 14) was appointed to be the day of atonement; we have no reason to think but that it was religiously observed, though it is not mentioned. But here we have an account of an occasional fast that was kept a fortnight after that, with reference to the present posture of their affairs,...