Nehemiah 13:15
Around that time I noticed people treading the winepress on Sabbath. I saw others collecting grain and loading it up on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, and bringing it all into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
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16I told them off for selling their produce on that day.
Cross References
Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Exodus 31:16The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath as an everlasting agreement for generations to come.
Exodus 35:2Six days you can work, but the seventh day is to be a holy Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Anyone who does any work on the Sabbath day must be killed.
Deuteronomy 5:12Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you to do.
2 Chronicles 24:19The Lord sent prophets to bring the people back to him and to warn them; but they refused to listen.
Nehemiah 10:31When the people of the land bring goods and all kinds of food to sell on the holy Sabbath, we will not buy anything from them on the Sabbath or on other holy days. Every seventh year we will leave the land to rest, and we will cancel all debts.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 13:11-15
Abuses Rectified. ( b. c. 434.) 10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field. 11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. 12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. 13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the… Read the whole commentary →