Nehemiah 7:1
_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE WALL WAS BUILT, AND I HAD SET UP THE DOORS, AND THE PORTERS AND THE SINGERS AND THE LEVITES WERE APPOINTED,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE WALL WAS BUILT, AND I HAD SET UP THE DOORS, AND THE PORTERS AND THE SINGERS AND THE LEVITES WERE APPOINTED,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT I GAVE MY BROTHER HANANI, AND HANANIAH THE RULER OF THE PALACE, CHARGE OVER JERUSALEM: FOR HE WAS A FAITHFUL MAN, AND FEARED GOD ABOVE MANY._ I gave my brother ... charge over Jerusalem. If, as is commonly supposed, Nehemiah was now contemplating a return to Shushan, according to his promise,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SAID UNTO THEM, LET NOT THE GATES OF JERUSALEM BE OPENED UNTIL THE SUN BE HOT; AND WHILE THEY STAND BY, LET THEM SHUT THE DOORS, AND BAR THEM: AND APPOINT WATCHES OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, EVERY ONE IN HIS WATCH, AND EVERY ONE TO BE OVER AGAINST HIS HOUSE._ Let not the gates of Jerusa... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE CITY WAS LARGE AND GREAT: BUT THE PEOPLE WERE FEW THEREIN, AND THE HOUSES WERE NOT BUILDED._ Now the city was large and great. The walls being evidently built on the old foundations, the city covered a large extent of surface, as all Oriental towns do, the houses standing apart, with garde... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MY GOD PUT INTO MINE HEART TO GATHER TOGETHER THE NOBLES, AND THE RULERS, AND THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY MIGHT BE RECKONED BY GENEALOGY. AND I FOUND A REGISTER OF THE GENEALOGY OF THEM WHICH CAME UP AT THE FIRST, AND FOUND WRITTEN THEREIN,_ My God put into mine heart to gather together ... The arra... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROVINCE, THAT WENT UP OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY, OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY, WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED AWAY, AND CAME AGAIN TO JERUSALEM AND TO JUDAH, EVERY ONE UNTO HIS CITY;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PRIESTS: THE CHILDREN OF JEDAIAH, OF THE HOUSE OF JESHUA, NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY AND THREE._ The priests. It appears that only four of the courses of the priests returned from the captivity, and that the course of Abia (Luke 1:5) is not in the list. But it must be noticed that these four courses... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE CHILDREN OF IMMER, A THOUSAND FIFTY AND TWO._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE TIRSHATHA SAID UNTO THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT EAT OF THE MOST HOLY THINGS, TILL THERE STOOD UP A PRIEST WITH URIM AND THUMMIM._ The Tirshatha said ... that they should not eat of the most holy things until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim. Whether the Urim and Thummim was con... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WHOLE CONGREGATION TOGETHER WAS FORTY AND TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THREESCORE,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOME OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS GAVE UNTO THE WORK. THE TIRSHATHA GAVE TO THE TREASURE A THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD, FIFTY BASONS, FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY PRIESTS' GARMENTS._ Some of the chief of the fathers .... With Nehemiah 7:69 the register ends, and the thread of Nehemiah's history is resum... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SOME OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS GAVE TO THE TREASURE OF THE WORK TWENTY THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD, AND TWO THOUSAND AND TWO HUNDRED POUND OF SILVER._ Pound of silver - i:e., mina (sixty shekels, or 9 British pounds).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THAT WHICH THE REST OF THE PEOPLE GAVE WAS TWENTY THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD, AND TWO THOUSAND POUND OF SILVER, AND THREESCORE AND SEVEN PRIESTS' GARMENTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND THE PORTERS, AND THE SINGERS, AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE NETHINIMS, AND ALL ISRAEL, DWELT IN THEIR CITIES; AND WHEN THE SEVENTH MONTH CAME, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN THEIR CITIES._ So ... all Israel, dwelt in their cities. The utility of these genealo... [ Continue Reading ]