Nehemiah 10

3. Dare not to join in marriage with image-worshippers. Solomon though a man of wisdom, yet his idolatrous wives drew away his heart from God; the people of Israel entered into an oath and curse, that they would not give their daughters in marriage to the idolaters (Nehemiah 10:…

And it was zealous Josiah's rule (whom the Spirit of God so commends in Scripture, that none was like before him for his Reformation) (2 Chronicles 34:31). The like example took Nehemiah after his return from the Babylonish captivity (Nehemiah 10:29), to observe all the commandm…

But is there any hope to see the nation of England reformed according to the primitive pattern, founded upon the word of the eternal Truth (Ephesians 2:20)? Yes, first, because there was never a more exact covenant taken in any realm, or nation, since the days of zealous Josiah…

"He spoke, and with harsh iron cut the throats of the lambs" — devoting perjurers to a like death. Nehemiah 10:29: "We made a covenant and an oath to walk in the law of God." Hence perhaps is that threat against the unfaithful servant: the Lord (Matthew 24:51) will cut him in pi…

Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice. They ought to profess a willingness of heart to embrace religion with all its difficulties, and to walk…

So Numbers 28:22, 30. Nehemiah 10:33. Once in the Old Testament it is used transitively, and sin placed as the object of it, Daniel 9:24.

(2.) There is no reason to think that the Nehemiah, mentioned Ezra 2. v. 2. who came up with Zerubbabel, was that Nehemiah who was afterwards Governour of Judah, and whose actions we have written probably the most part by himself, no more then there is to think that the Seraiah…

First, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]Corban, the general name of all sacrifices, taken from the general nature, in that they were all brought nigh to God, is usually rendred by the vulgar Latine, Oblatio, and by us suitably an Offering; is properly appropinquatio, a drawing nigh, f…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

"But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." Indeed, God was so exacting about this, that he descends to a particular prohibition of seve…

His [〈◊〉] preme and Infallible Truth is also acknowledged; [〈◊〉] this is manifestly carried in an Oath, That thoug[•] am a false and deceitful Creature, and my affirmati[••] cannot obtain universal and full credence, yet that is greater than I, by whose Name I swear, cannot dece…

Now that after the captivity of Babylon, Princes and Magistrates used a coercive power for offences against the first Table, is plain by those instances (Ezra 10:7, 8) of making proclamation that all who had taken strange wives of the people of the land, should come to Jerusalem…

Ergo, now neither testament nor covenant was confirmed by blood simply, but by the blood of a living creature slain. Hence the making of a covenant was by cutting a calf or a beast in two, and passing between the parts thereof (Jeremiah 34:18), and so they entered into a curse (…