Nehemiah 12:22-30

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:27-43

Purifications And Celebrations At The Dedication Of The Wall (Nehemiah 12:27-43 ). Having established the newly walled Jerusalem as ‘the holy city’ (Nehemiah 11:1), properly inhabited by a people who were fully faithful to YHWH (chapter 11), and having demonstrated the proper succession of a genuine priesthood in accord with the Law of Moses, who would keep the city ‘holy’ (Nehemiah 12:1-26), the writer now describes the purifications and celebrations which took place at the dedication of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:27-47

THE PURIFYING OF THE HOLY CITY (Nehemiah 12:27 to Nehemiah 13:31 ). The prophecies concerning Jerusalem as ‘the holy city’ had in mind the coming eschatalogical age, and its consequent purification (Isaiah 52:1; Daniel 9:24), and there can be little doubt, in view of the hopes expressed in the prophecies of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, that this age must have been in mind as Jerusalem was so triumphantly re-established. Thus the writer ends his book with a description of the purification... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:30

The Preparatory Purifying Of All Involved (Nehemiah 12:30 ). The presence of the priests is assumed. For unlike the Levites, who were dependent on the then non-existent tithes (Nehemiah 13:10), the priests would have been continually provided for from their appointed share in the offerings and sacrifices. All would be involved because now a great purification exercise was necessary. This was to be the holy city. Nehemiah 12:30 ‘And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they... 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

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nehemiah 12:27-43

Nehemiah 12:27-John : . Dedication of the Walls of Jerusalem.— We should naturally expect this section to come after Nehemiah 6:15, where the completion of the walls is recorded; like so many others, this section has become misplaced from its original position. It is, in the main, taken from the memoirs of Nehemiah (see Nehemiah 12:31; Nehemiah 12:38; Nehemiah 12:40), though probably the compiler has left his marks upon it. Nehemiah 12:27 . they sought the Levites. . .: the Levites at this... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 12:22

Either Darius Codomanus, and then what was said concerning Jaddua, Nehemiah 12:11, must be in part repeated and applied here: or Darius Nothus; and so this Jaddua might be father to him who was in the days of Darius Codomanus, and of Alexander the Great. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 12:23

In the book of the chronicles, i.e. in the public annals or registers, in which the genealogies of the several families were set down by the Jews with great exactness, as all persons agree. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 12:24

Of which See Poole "Nehemiah 12:9". read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 12:25

To wit, of the temple, their watching-place being close by the thresholds of the gates, as it now is. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nehemiah 12:27

At the dedication of the wall; and of the gates, which are mentioned Nehemiah 12:30; and of the city itself within the gates; which is here dedicated to God, and to his honour and service, not only upon a general account, by which we ought to devote ourselves, and all that is ours, to God; but upon a more special ground, because this was a place which God himself had chosen, and sanctified by his temple and gracious presence, and therefore did of right belong to him; whence it is oft called the... read more

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