Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nehemiah 11:4-19
See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the dwellers at Jerusalem. The subjoined table exhibits the differences between the accounts of the entire population of Jerusalem as given in Nehemiah and in Chronicles: 1 Chron Nehemiah Tribes of Judah Of Pharez 468 Of Zerah 690 Tribe of Benjamin 956 928 ... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Nehemiah 11:14
Their brethren, mighty men of valour . Not "men of great courage," as Bp. Patrick explains, but "very able men for the work of the service of the house of God," as our translators render the parallel passage of Chronicles ( 1 Chronicles 9:13 ). Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men . Rather, as in the margin, "the son of Haggedolim." read more