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Updated: May 12, 2025

So, Neh. x. 28, 29 "Every one that had knowledge and understanding entered into the covenant." This duty must be gone about with sincerity and uprightness of heart; thus Joshua, when making a covenant with the people, that they should serve the Lord, exhorts them "Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth," Joshua, xxiv., compare the 25th verse with the 14th.

The Reformed Presbytery - The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and: Solemn League and Covenant: With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They: Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared: With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The: Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia,: October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of: the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and: Positions Respectively

They had their ecclesiastical, as well as their civil Sanhedrin, for high and difficult affairs of the church; which seems first to be constituted, Exod. xxiv. 1, and after decay thereof, it was restored by King Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. xix. 8; and from this court that national church's reformation proceeded, Neh. vi. 13. 2.

- The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

We would think it no small measure or degree of holiness, to be with singleness of heart pursuing it, even though it should seem to flee from us; to be earnestly panting after it, and hungering and thirsting for it. Nehemiah thought this no small thing, when he said, Neh. i. 11, "O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servants who desire to fear thy name."

John (of Wamphray) Brown - Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

Happy they who thus 'from morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve, labour in the work of the Lord! For them, every new morning will dawn with new strength, and every evening be calm with the consciousness of 'something attempted, something done. ... So did not I, because of the fear of God. Neh. v. 15. I do not suppose that the ordinary Bible-reader knows very much about Nehemiah.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra,: and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes

But all such as are reformed, or reforming from all iniquity, and namely from the defections and compliances of the time; who have some suitable sense of the breaches, and competent knowledge and understanding of the duties engaged unto in the covenant, Neh. x. 28, have a right and an immediate call to the duty of renewing the covenant. 2dly, If any number of people may renew a national oath and covenant without the consent and concurrence of royal authority, or at least, without the concurrence of some chief and principal men in church and state?

The Reformed Presbytery - The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and: Solemn League and Covenant: With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They: Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared: With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The: Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia,: October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of: the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and: Positions Respectively

Me think it storm come up." To the hot and thirsty white boys the word "storm" had only one meaning, and they uttered it together: "Rain!" Yarloo smiled. "Neh," he replied. "Rain no come up. Me think it wind. P'raps sand. Me no like it."

Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey) Sayce - In the Musgrave Ranges