Nehemiah
Nehemiah (Greek 5:7), 5:13, 7:66, 8:2, 17, 13:1
* Nehemiah 5:7 I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” And I set A great MULTITUDE against them.
(q’hee-law g’doe-law / ek’klaysian megalayn)
Note: Shows up in Strong’s as 6952 a rare use of qahall. As you can see Nehemiah did not set a church or local congregation or worship team against them. He just sent a great ecclesia/multitude. For other non spiritual uses of the word ecclesia see Genesis 49:6
Nehemiah 5:13 I also shook out my garment, and I said, “In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!” THE whole MULTITUDE replied, “So be it!” and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.
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* Nehemiah 7:66 THE whole MULTITUDE numbered 42,360,
(call ha qa-hall / pasa hay ek’klaysia)
Note: Some translations render “the entire group” See Numbers 22:4
Nehemiah 8:2 So Ezra the priest brought the law before THE MULTITUDE which included men and women and all those able to understand what they heard. (This happened on the first day of the seventh month.)
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Nehemiah 8:17 So THE whole MULTITUDE which had returned from the exile constructed temporary shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. Everyone experienced very great joy.
(call ha qa-hall / pasa hay ek’klaysia)
* Nehemiah 13:1 On that day the book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people. They found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite may ever enter THE MULTITUDE of God,
(beeq’hall ha Eloheem / en ek’laysia Theou)
Note: This verse refers to marriage or any other covenant or contract made with a pagan, but especially concerning marriage as you will see in the context here in Nehemiah (see Paul “not be yolked with an unbeliever” and Deuteronomy 23:1-8)
