1;  Upon the reading of the law, separation is made from the
     mixed multitude.
  4;  Nehemiah, at his return, causes the chambers to be
     cleansed.
 10;  He reforms the offices in the house of God;
 15;  the violation of the sabbath;
 23;  and the marriages with the strange wives.

 * that day.
   Some suppose that the events recorded in these verses took
   place several years after those related in the preceding
   chapter, while Nehemiah was absent at the Persian court; but
   the introductory language, on that day, seems rather to imply
   that they occurred immediately, or at least about that time.

 * they read.  Heb. there was read.
  8:3-8  9:3  De 31:11,12  2Ki 23:2  Isa 34:16  Lu 4:16-19  10:26 
  Ac 13:15  15:21 
 * audience.  Heb. ears.  the Ammonite.
  23  De 23:3-5  Isa 15:1-16:14  Jer 48:1-47  Eze 25:1-11  Am 2:1-3 
 * Moabite.
  2:10,19  4:3  Ps 83:7-9  Jer 49:1-6  Am 1:13-15