Verse 23
23. The sons of Levi This expression comprehends both priests and Levites, and is therefore more general than the term the Levites, which is used in distinction from the priests.
The book of the Chronicles Not our present book of “Chronicles,” but the public annals of the Jewish nation, from which all these registers were probably derived.
Until the days of Johanan The preceding verse mentions registers kept until the reign of Darius the Persian, a date apparently later than the time of Johanan; and this favours the opinion of some that the mention of Darius and Jaddua is a later interpolation. But if this Persian king were Darius Nothus, then his reign and the days of Johanan were contemporaneous, and Nehemiah himself may have written these words.
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