Rashi
Jewish
1040–1105
“and I said to them I warned those traffickers. If you repeat this if you continue to do this a second time. Since that time From that day on, they did not come on the Sabbath day.”
The interpretation timeline
Neh 13:21
How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.
From the early Church Fathers to now.
1 Jewish · 1 Reformed · 1 Methodist · 1 Catholic
Neh 13:21 · Douay-Rheims
“And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath.”
Scholastic
c. 1100 – 1500
1105
A.D.
666 years pass — nothing from this stretch is hosted yet
Post-Reformation
c. 1650 – 1900
1771
A.D.
John Gill
Reformed
1697–1771
“And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod,.... Which they learned of their mothers, so that it was a mixed language they spoke, partly Jewish and partly Philistine; but some refer this not to their speech, but to the number of their children; that half of them, which Jarchi interprets many of them, spoke in the language of Ashdod, even as many as were most with their mothers, and chiefly brought up by them: and could not speak in the Jews' language; not at all, or so much as to be understood well, which inclines to the last sense: but according to the language of each people; their mothers were of, whether of Ashdod, or of Ammon, or of Moab.”
1832
A.D.
Adam Clarke
Methodist
1762–1832
“I will lay hands on you - I will imprison every man of you. This had the desired effect; they came no more.”
1849
A.D.
George Leo Haydock
Catholic
1774–1849
“On you. To punish you, (Calmet) for thus endeavouring to tempt the people. (Haydock)”
Modern · 1953 →
The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.