The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. ... 8:18 Ezra read in the book of the law ...

The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy. ... 8:18 Ezra read in the book of the law ...

[8:3] tn Heb “in order to make known to you.” In the Hebrew text this statement is subordinated to what precedes, resulting in a very long sentence in English.

It can mean an act of judgment, place of judgment, or what is just, that is, the outcome of the decision. It basically describes an umpire's decision. The ...

8:1 The Lord says, “When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people ...

8:3 He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to ...

[8:1] tn The Hebrew word translated “remembered” often carries the sense of acting in accordance with what is remembered, i.e., fulfilling covenant promises ( ...

[8:2] tc The MT reads the singular noun with 1st person common singular suffix רִמֹּנִי (rimmoni, “my pomegranate”). However, many Hebrew mss preserve ...

8:2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it ...