Teks -- Nehemiah 8:6 (NET)

8:6 Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people replied “Amen! Amen!” as they lifted their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

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Clarke: Neh 8:6 - Ezra blessed the Lord

Ezra blessed the Lord - In imitation of this, we say, when the gospel for the day is commenced, Glory be to God for his holy Gospel! and conclude this thanksgiving with, Amen.

TSK: Neh 8:6 - blessed // Amen // with lifting // bowed // with their faces

blessed : 1Ch 29:20; 2Ch 6:4; Psa 41:13, Psa 72:18, Psa 72:19; Eph 1:3; 1Pe 1:3

Amen : Neh 5:13; Jer 28:6; Mat 6:13; 1Co 14:16

with lifting : Gen 14:22; Psa 28:2, Psa 63:4, Psa 134:2, Psa 141:2; Lam 3:41; 1Ti 2:8

bowed : Gen 24:26; Exo 4:31, Exo 12:27; 2Ch 20:18, 2Ch 29:30

with their faces : Lev 9:24; Mat 26:39; Rev 7:11

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Gill: Neh 8:6 - And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God // and all the people answered, Amen, Amen // with lifting up their hands // and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground

And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God,.... Before he began to read in the book of the law, he addressed himself to God in a short prayer, wholly in the benedictory way; ascribing blessing, honour, and glory to him, celebrating his being and perfections, setting forth his greatness and his excellency, who was the author and giver of the law he was about to read; and this he the rather did, that what he read might be the more carefully attended to, and come with the greater authority, weight, and influence on those that heard it; and so, Maimonides ^o says, it is the custom with the Jews, in their synagogues, for the reader, after he has opened the book, and looked out the place he reads, to say this blessing,"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the world, who hath chosen us out of all people, and hath given us his law; blessed art thou, O Lord, who hast given us the law; and all the people answer, Amen;''as they now did, as follows:

and all the people answered, Amen, Amen: repeating the word, to declare their hearty assent to what Ezra had expressed; the Jews have many rules concerning pronouncing the "Amen", that it must not be too quick, curt, and short, nor with too high a voice ^p:

with lifting up their hands; a prayer gesture, to which the apostle refers, 1Ti 2:8,

and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground; expressing hereby the awful sense they had of the Divine Being, and their profound adoration of him.