Nehemiah 7:5 a. Enumeration of the Returned Exiles. This section= Ezra 2:1; cf. the Greek Ezra 5:7. As this list is approximately the same as that of the exiles who returned under Zerubbabel, it must have come originally from the archives in Jerusalem.
Verse Nehemiah 7:5. _GOD PUT INTO MINE HEART_] With this good man every _good thing_ was of GOD. If he _purposed_ any good, it was because _God put it into his heart_; if he _did_ any good, it was be...
It is argued by some that the entire catalogue which follows Nehemiah 7:7 is not the register of them “which came up ‘at the first’,” but of the Jewish people in Nehemiah’s time. Nehemiah 7:7 and Ezra...
CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Provisions made for the defense of the city (Nehemiah 7:1)_ 2. The genealogy (Nehemiah 7:5) 3. Their whole number (Nehemiah 7:66) 4. The gifts for the work ...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. FOUND. This account probably written long after this date (426): say, between 404 and 400 B.C. Hebrew. I find that the list of names was, &c. I FOUND. REGISTER of the ge...
_my God put into mine heart_ R.V. MY HEART. For this expression see note on Nehemiah 2:12. _nobles … rulers_(R.V. marg. _deputies) … people_ cf. Nehemiah 2:16; Nehemiah 4:14;...
2. Nehemiah retraces the genealogies of first returning exiles. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 7:5-73 5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by gene...
_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 A...
7:5 rulers, (a-15) See Ezra 9:2 . register (b-28) See Ezra 2 ....
A LIST OF THOSE WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL 2. Hanani] after carrying information to Nehemiah respecting the condition of JERUSALEM (Nehemiah 1:2), he must have returned with him to Jud...
RECKONED BY GENEALOGY] It was proposed to take a census of all the persons of Jewish descent, with a view to transferring part of the country population to the capital. Particulars derived from such a...
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 7 V1 So we had finished the construction of the wall. And I had put the doors in place. We had appoint...
It seems that Nehemiah prayed about this problem. And God showed him what to do. Nehemiah recorded all the people in a list of their families. Then he found the list of the first people who returned f...
(5-73) The genealogical reckoning of the people, as the first step towards increasing the population of the metropolis, is determined on, not without express Divine suggestion; the allusion to this in...
וַ יִּתֵּ֤ן אֱלֹהַי֙ אֶל ־לִבִּ֔י וָ אֶקְבְּצ
36-73, PUBLIC-SPIRITED CITIZENS Nehemiah 7:1 It is probable that Nehemiah returned to the Persian court on the completion of the first part of his enterprise, the building of the walls, and that he l...
At last the wall was completed by setting up the doors, and placing in order porters, singers, and Levites. In the first few verses of this chapter we have an account of the arrangements for the safet...
Heart, inspired me to provide inhabitants for the city, as was afterwards done by lot, chap. xi. (Tirinus) --- Written. Hence it seems evident that Nehemias here only transcribes this ancient record,...
(5) В¶ 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 cam...
The Joy of the Lord I. INTRODUCTION A. Chapter's 7 & 8 begin the "second phase" in the book of Nehemiah. 1. This "second phase" is the re-instruction of God's people - of the laws of Moses. 2. The...
God blesses the labours of the faithful Nehemiah, and Jerusalem is once more encompassed by walls; a less touching condition than when the city of God was defended by the altar of God, which was a tes...
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...
_And my God put into my heart_, &c. Whatever good motion is put into our minds, we must acknowledge it to come from God; and even what is done by human prudence is to be ascribed to the direction of d...
[WHO RETURNED FROM BABYLON TO IERUSALEM.] 1 Nehemiah committeth the charge of Ierusalem to Hanani and Hananiah. 5 A register of the genealogie of them which came at the first out of Babylon, 9 of t...
A LIST OF RETURNED EXILES...
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, his idea being to increase the number of the city's inhabitants by...
APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE CITY (vv. 1-3) The wall of separation having been built and the doors hung in the gates, then appointments consistent with this separation were made (v. 1). Gatekeepers are...
5-73 Nehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upon the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every good work are from above. God gives knowledge, he gives grace...
GOD PUT INTO MINE HEART: this action, though merely prudential, he doth not ascribe to himself, or his own wit, but to the gift and grace of God directing and inclining him to it. TO GATHER TOGETHER T...
Nehemiah 7:5 God H430 put H5414 (H8799) heart H3820 gather H6908 (H8799) nobles H2715 rulers H5461 people...
THE REASON FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE LIST (NEHEMIAH 7:4). Nehemiah 7:4 ‘Now the city was wide and large, but the people in it were few, and the houses were not built.' The walls having been completed...
CONTENTS: Jerusalem put in charge of Hanani and Hananiah. Genealogy of the first remnant. CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Hanani, Hananiah. CONCLUSION: Those who fear God will evidence it by being faithf...
Nehemiah 7:2. _I gave my brother Hanani,_ probably his eldest brother, who had come to Shushan to represent the injuries sustained by the Jews, from the governor in Samaria: Nehemiah 1:2. _And Hanania...
_Now it came to pass, when the wall was built._ THE GUARDIAN OF THE HOLY CITY I. His care for Jerusalem’s protection. It is a beneficent law of our nature that the more true affection is exercised it...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 7:5 A Record of Those Who Returned from Exile. Nehemiah lists the returned exiles from the time of Zerubbabel. ⇐...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The second section of this book (chaps. 7–12:43) furnishes a description of the further efforts of Nehemiah to increase and insure the prosperity of the community in Judah and Jer...
EXPOSITION COMPLETION OF THE WORK, AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR GUARDING THE GATES (Nehemiah 7:1). The wall and gate-towers being completed, nothing remained but to hang the doors in the gateways, and to arra...
Now in chapter 7: It came to pass, when the wall was built, and the doors, the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, that he gave his brother Hanani (Nehemiah 7:1-2), Now this is t...
1 Chronicles 9:1; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 2 Corinthians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 8:16;...
God put it into mine heart — Whatever good motion is in our minds, we must acknowledge it to come from God. What is done by human prudence is to be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence....