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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:1-9

List Of The Leading Priests And Levites Who Went Up With Zerubbabel From Exile (Nehemiah 12:1-9 ). The list is divided into two parts, the names of chiefs of the priests, and the names of the (leading) Levites. These were the priests and Levites whose genealogies had been demonstrated (Nehemiah 7:64; Ezra 8:15-20). Nehemiah 12:1 ‘Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua:’ Note how it is emphasised that among the returnees were a... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:1-26

Details Concerning The Priests And Levites Who Returned With Zerubbabel, And Those Who Subsequently Developed (Nehemiah 12:1-26 ). The importance of the genuinely appointed Priests and Levites to the new Israel and to the new Jerusalem as the holy city is now emphasised by providing details concerning their connection with the return, and their subsequent development. It is being emphasised that God had made provision for the continuation of orthodox worship in ‘the holy city’, including the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:1-47

The Establishment Of Jerusalem As The Holy City, Populated By True Israelites; Its Worship Conducted By Those Specifically and Provably Appointed By God; Accepted from God With Due Gladness And Praise; And Purified By the Removal Of All That Could Be Displeasing To God (Nehemiah 11:1 to Nehemiah 13:31 ). The Book closes with a description of the restoring of Jerusalem as the holy city. This was accomplished by: · Populating Jerusalem the holy city with members of the new true Israel who... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:1-26

Nehemiah 12:1-: . Priests and Levites who Returned with Jeshua and Zerubbabel, and Extracts from other Lists.— The details here given were, in all probability, taken largely from the Temple archives. Nehemiah 12:1-1 Samuel : . Cf. Ezra 2:36-Matthew :; Nehemiah 7:39-John :. Nehemiah 12:10 f. A fragment from a genealogical list. Nehemiah 12:12-: . Further lists of priests and Levites. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Nehemiah 12:1-47

EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The list of the inhabitants of the province (chap. 11) is followed by lists of the priests and Levites (Nehemiah 12:1-26). These different lists are, in fact, all connected with the genealogical register of the Israelite population of the whole province, taken by Nehemiah (Nehemiah 7:5) for the purpose of enlarging the population of Jerusalem … Nehemiah 12:1-9 contains a list of the heads of the priests and Levites who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel and Joshua. The... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 12:1-47

Chapter 12In chapter 12:Now these are the priests and the Levites ( Nehemiah 12:1 )And so it gives the names of those priests and Levites that were serving at the time, and it gives their genealogy in verses Nehemiah 12:10-21. And then it tells the chief of the Levites the priests. So when we get to verse Nehemiah 12:27 of chapter 12,And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all the places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Nehemiah 12:1-47

Nehemiah 12:47 . They sanctified unto the levites, and the levites sanctified unto the children of Aaron. They dedicated and delivered not only the tithes, and the tithe of the tithes, as stated in Nehemiah 10:38; but whatever was designed for sacred uses in the temple. All these things were accounted holy or sanctified. read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Nehemiah 12:1-28

Nehemiah 12:1-28Were written in the book of the chronicles.A bookI. A book unites the ages. Brings the past into the present; borrows the future to give the present significance. The “sceptred spirits of history” rule us still. With books the poorest enters the highest society: the loneliest need not be solitary.II. A book reveals life’s importance. It gives permanence to thought. Life is a writing.III. A book silently anticipates the judgment. A record may be appealed to: “Is this thy... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Nehemiah 12:5

Miamin: Nehemiah 12:17, Miniamin Maadiah: The variation between Moadiah, מועדיה [Strong's H4153], and Maadiah, מעדיה [Strong's H4573], merely arises from the elision of ו, wav; the LXX, however, in Nehemiah 12:17, have בבהבי. Nehemiah 12:17, Moadiah Reciprocal: Nehemiah 10:7 - Mijamin Nehemiah 10:8 - Bilgai read more