Nehemiah 10:29 KJV explained | Israel’s new covenant with God

Nehemiah 10 vs. 29 – They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

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Nehemiah 10:29 KJV explained

Israel’s new covenant with God

God’s covenant with David

The Israelites decided to make a new covenant with God as he returned them to Jerusalem from the land of captivity. The highlights of the covenants are as follows:

1. They bind themselves by an oath that they will serve God, and they put a curse on anyone who will not serve God – vs.29
2. They decided they would not marry or give their daughters into marriage to the people of the land.
3. They decided to observe the sabbath day and refrain from any commercial activity.
4. They decided to donate one-third of a shekel as a maintenance offering for the house of God. – vs. 32. Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

Israel’s new covenant with God

1. They decided to give different kinds of offerings: meat offering, sin offering, and wood offering to the house of God.
2. They decided to bring the first fruit and all their crops into the house of God. This included first fruits of their animal, crops, flocks, harvest, wine and oil. Vs. 35-37
3. They decided to pay tithes for the Levites.
4. The Levites also decided to give the tithes of their tithes into the house of God. – vs. 38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

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