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Nehemiah 13:16

Nehemiah 13:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

There dwelt men of Tyre also therein. It was not against the law that foreigners should dwell in Jerusalem. Araunah the Jebusite lived there in the time of David, and Ebed-melech the Ethiopian in the time of Zedekiah ().

Nehemiah does not object to the Tyrians for being dwellers in Jerusalem, but for offering their wares for sale there on the sabbath, and inducing the Jews to buy of them. Which brought fish. Fish was always a favourite article of food with the Israelites (Le ; ; ; ; ; ; , etc.

). They derived it chiefly from the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean.

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