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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nehemiah 8:17 - 8:17
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since the days of Jeshua ... had not the children of Israel done so - This national feast had not been neglected for so protracted a period. Besides that it is impossible that such a flagrant disregard of the law could have been tolerated by Samuel, David, and other pious rulers, its observance is sufficiently indicated (1Ki 8:2, 1Ki 8:65; 2Ch 7:9) and expressly recorded (Ezr 3:4). But the meaning is, that the popular feelings had never been raised to such a height of enthusiastic joy since the time of their entrance into Canaan, as now on their return after a long and painful captivity.