George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nehemiah 11:16
Outward. For repairs of the temple, cultivation of the lands given by vow; also to buy provisions, sacred vestments, &c.
Outward. For repairs of the temple, cultivation of the lands given by vow; also to buy provisions, sacred vestments, &c.
Verse 16. _AND SHABBETHAI_] This verse, with verses Nehemiah 11:20_, _Nehemiah 11:21_, _Nehemiah 11:28, Nehemiah 11:...
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...
III. THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED, THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL, AND NEHEMIAH'S FINAL ACTS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. The willing offerers (Nehemiah 11:1)_ 2. The heads of the residents of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11:3)...
PART V (Nehemiah 11-13). THE POPULATION OF JERUSALEM AND JUDAH. THE DEDICATION OF THE WALLS INTERNAL ORGANISATION. Nehemiah 11:1. The Population of Jerusalem and Judah. This section consists of lists...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4....
_Shabbethai … Jozabad_ See these names in Nehemiah 8:7. They do not occur in the parallel list of 1 Chronicles 9:15-16, where however three other names, Heresh, Galal, and Berechiah are inserted. _ch...
Nehemiah 11:1 TO NEHEMIAH 12:26. Extracts from Registers and Public Lists 1, 2. Measures taken to increase the number of dwellers in Jerusalem. This passage seems to take up the thread which had bee...
4. Levites. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 11:15-19 15 Now from the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni; 16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leade...
_AND SHABBETHAI AND JOZABAD, OF THE CHIEF OF THE LEVITES, HAD THE OVERSIGHT OF THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD._ The oversight of the outward business of the house of God - i:e., those thing...
THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OF] Perhaps the judicial administration described in 2 Chronicles 19:8; 1 Chronicles 26:29....
MEASURES TO SUPPLEMENT THE POPULATION OF JERUSALEM 1. This v. resumes the subject of the paucity of population in Jerusalem: see Nehemiah 7:4. The rulers were already residing in the capital, and mean...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 11 The people had built the city called Jerusalem again. Then they returned to the smaller towns and v...
Nehemiah recorded the names of the priests and the *Levites who lived in Jerusalem. The priests led the people when they *worshipped God. The *Levites helped the priests and they looked after the *sac...
OUTWARD BUSINESS. — This is a remarkable specification of the functions of the Lévites, parallel with the “valour” of the priests just before. The preceding chapter explains the “outward business.”...
(4-19) The heads in Jerusalem: as compared with 1 Chronicles 9, by no means complete. Judah and Benjamin are represented, with priests and Levites and porters....
וְ שַׁבְּתַ֨י וְ יֹוזָבָ֜ד עַל ־הַ מְּלָאכָ֤ה
THE HOLY CITY Nehemiah 11:1 WE have seen that though the two passages that deal with the sparsity of the population of Jerusalem are separated in our Bibles by the insertion of the section on the rea...
We now begin the third and final division of the Book, in which is set forth the arrangements made for settlement of the cities. It is the last piece of history which the Old Testament contains. Some...
(3) Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt everyone in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, AND 11. On the twenty-fourth day, the people came together to humble themselves in a manner that became their position, and they separated themselves f...
_The outward business of the house of God_ For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as the gathering in of the voluntary co...
1 The rulers, voluntary men, and the tenth man chosen by Lot, dwell at Ierusalem. 3 A catalogue of their names. 20 The residue dwell in other cities. [WHO DWELT IN IERUSALEM, AND THE CITIES OF IUDA...
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levite. had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God, all the work which did not concern sacrifices and worship, especially the collect...
LIST OF THE LEADING MEN...
THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM AND OTHER CITIES (vv. 1-25) Jerusalem being God's center, the leaders of the people lived there, but the people evidently preferred other places, so that the proposal wa...
i.e. For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as for the gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary pr...
Nehemiah 11:16 Shabbethai H7678 Jozabad H3107 heads H7218 Levites H3881 oversight H2435 business H4399 house H1004 God...
OF THE LEVITES (NEHEMIAH 11:15). A number of Levites also took up permanent residence in Jerusalem in order to aid its new beginning. They would do so with high hopes. Nehemiah 11:15 ‘And of the Le...
FOLLOWING THE MAKING OF THE RENEWED COVENANT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND OF THE RENEWED ISRAEL IS DESCRIBED (NEHEMIAH 11:1). Having renewed the covenant it was now necessary for the new...
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...
CONTENTS: The dwellers at Jerusalem and the cities. CHARACTERS: Joel, Judah, Zabdrel, Shabbethai, Jozabad, Mathaniah, Uzzi, Pethahiah. CONCLUSION: Those who take care of the outward concerns of the...
Nehemiah 11:1. _To bring one in ten to dwell in Jerusalem._ The inhabitants were not yet sufficiently numerous for the public works and services, and for the defence of the city. Hence it became neces...
_Had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God._ THE SECULAR IN SACRED SERVICE I. It is possible to secularise the sacred. When sacred service is entered upon from secular motives; w...
_And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem._ THE HOLY CITY REPLENISHED Jerusalem is called here the holy city, because there the temple was, and that was the place God had chosen to put His na...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 11:1 The Population of Jerusalem and the Villages; Priests and Levites. These chapters depict the people’s efforts to populate Jerusalem....
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 11:15 THE LEVITES were responsible for THE OUTSIDE WORK OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, a lesser role than that of the priests in v....
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “This chapter is intimately connected with Nehemiah 7:4, showing Nehemiah’s plan of increasing the population of the city. The genealogies and then the confession and covenant come...
PART III. ENLARGEMENT OF THE POPULATION OF JERUSALEM, WITH THE NUMBER OF THE ADULT MALES, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS. VARIOUS
And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, that one in ten might dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities (Nehemiah 11:1)....
1 Chronicles 26:20; Acts 6:2; Acts 6:3; Nehemiah 8:7...
Outward — For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as the gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary p...