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Nehemiah 10

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Nehemiah 10 Overview

Leaders, priests, Levites, and the people bind themselves to specific covenant obligations. They address marriage with surrounding peoples, Sabbath commerce, sabbatical-year practices, annual temple support, wood offerings, firstfruits, tithes, and the support of priests and Levites. The chapter ends with the resolve, “we will not forsake the house of our God.”

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Before you read Nehemiah 10

Coming from

Chapter 9 ended with a historical confession and the decision to make a sure covenant because of Israel’s repeated unfaithfulness.

In this chapter

The community names the signers and specifies concrete Mosaic-covenant responsibilities they commit to keep.

Leads into

Chapter 11 tackles Jerusalem’s low population by arranging for more people to live inside the restored city.

Key understandingExplore deeper

The agreement is not a newly invented religion. Its terms apply Torah requirements to the post-exilic community’s present circumstances. Temple support matters because restored worship cannot function if priests, Levites, offerings, and materials are neglected.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Truth 1

Serious covenant commitment is expressed in specific responsibilities rather than vague promises.

Truth 2

Worship requires sustained communal support, not just a rebuilt temple building.

Truth 3

The chapter connects personal household decisions, economic practices, and public worship within Israel’s covenant life.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Connection 1

Exodus 23 and Deuteronomy 15 provide background for Sabbath and sabbatical-year economic practices.

Connection 2

Numbers 18 explains tithes and the support of Levites and priests.

Connection 3

Nehemiah 13 shows that several of these commitments later require renewed enforcement, revealing how quickly reform can erode.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Keep this clear 1

These obligations belong to Israel’s Mosaic covenant and temple system; they should not be imposed wholesale on the New Testament church.

Keep this clear 2

The intermarriage rule again concerns covenant corruption and idolatrous influence, not a doctrine of ethnic superiority.

Keep this clear 3

Signing a covenant document does not itself transform the heart; the later chapters show the continuing need for faithfulness.

Read Nehemiah 10 watching for…

Who formally joins the covenant commitment.

The marriage and Sabbath issues singled out.

The different contributions supporting temple worship.

How tithes are distributed and supervised.

The closing resolve concerning the house of God.

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Chapter outline4 sections
1-27Nehemiah, priests, Levites, and leaders seal the covenant28-31The people promise to obey God’s law, avoid mixed marriages, and keep the Sabbath32-34The people provide for the temple service and wood offering35-39They promise firstfruits, firstborn, and tithes and will not forsake the house of God
1

Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

2

Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

3

Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,

4

Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

5

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

6

Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

7

Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

8

Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

9

And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

10

And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

11

Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

12

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

13

Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

14

The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

15

Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

16

Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

17

Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,

18

Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

19

Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

20

Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

21

Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

22

Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

23

Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,

24

Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,

25

Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

26

And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

27

Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

28

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

29

They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

30

And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

31

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

32

Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

33

For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

34

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

35

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

36

Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

37

And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

38

And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

39

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

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