SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:13
ΒΆ Y al día siguiente se juntaron los príncipes de las familias de todo el pueblo, sacerdotes, y levitas, a Esdras escriba, para entender las palabras de la ley.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And on the second day were gathered together , etc.] The second day of the month, and of the new year, the day after the feast of blowing of trumpets, and after the law had been read and explained: the chief of the fathers of all the people : heads of tribes and families: the priests and the Levites; who, though they were instructors of others, needed to be taught themselves, of which they were sensible: and therefore came unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law ; some things in it, which, upon reading the day before, they observed had some difficulty in them, and which they did not clearly and thoroughly understand; and therefore applied to Ezra, a ready scribe in the law, for better information, and that they might be better able to teach the people; which was highly commendable in them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-18 - They found written in the law about the feast of tabernacles. Those wh diligently search the Scriptures, find things written there which the have forgotten. This feast of tabernacles was a representation of the believer's tabernacle state in this world, and a type of the holy jo of the gospel church. The conversion of the nations to the faith of Christ, is foretold under the figure of this feast, Zec 14:16. Tru religion will render us strangers and pilgrims upon earth. We read an hear the word acceptably and profitably, when we do according to what is written therein; when what appears to be our duty is revived, afte it has been neglected. They minded the substance; else the ceremony ha been of no use. They did it, rejoicing in God and his goodness. Thes are the means which the Spirit of God crowns with success, in bringin the hearts of sinners to tremble and to become humbled before God. But those are enemies to their own growth in holiness, who always indulg sorrow, even for sin, and put away from them the consolations tendere by the word and Spirit of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וביום 3117 השׁני 8145 נאספו 622 ראשׁי 7218 האבות 1 לכל 3605 העם 5971 הכהנים 3548 והלוים 3881 אל 413 עזרא 5830 הספר 5608 ולהשׂכיל 7919 אל 413 דברי 1697 התורה׃ 8451
