Nehemiah 8:5

And Esdras opened the book before all the people: for he was above all the people: and when he had opened it, all the people stood.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

In Context

4And Esdras the scribe stood upon a step of wood, which he had made to speak upon, and there stood by him Mathathias, and Semeia, and Ania, and Uria, and Helcia, and Maasia, on his right hand: and on the left, Phadaia, Misael, and Melchia, and Hasum, and Hasbadana, Zacharia and Mosollam.

6And Esdras blessed the Lord the great God: and all the people answered, Amen, amen: lifting up their hands: and they bowed down, and adored God with their faces to the ground.

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Cross References

Judges 3:20Aod went in to him: now he was sitting in a summer parlour alone, and he said: I have a word from God to thee. And he forthwith rose up from his throne,

Luke 4:16And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day; and he rose up to read.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 8:2-9

The Explanation of the Law. ( b. c. 444.) 1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the… Read the whole commentary →

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