Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
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.
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.
Verse 23. _THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES_] This is not the book of _Chronicles_ which we have now, no such list being found in it; but some other book or register, which is lost....
These verses interrupt the account of the church officers in the time of Joiakim, resumed in Nehemiah 12:24. They appear to be an addition to the original text, made about the time of Alexander the Gr...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Priests and Levites at the time of the return under Zerubbabel and Joshua (Nehemiah 12:1)_ 2. The descendants of Joshua, the high priest (Nehemiah 12:10) 3. The heads of the priestl...
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. _Cf....
THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES: i.e. the public records or registers....
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...
_The sons of Levi_ Here we have the heading or title of another enrolment. The expression -the sons of Levi" is to be noted, and compared with the mention of -the Levites" in Nehemiah 12:8_; Nehemiah...
4. Levites are listed from the time of Joiakim. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:22-26 22 As for the Levites, the heads of fathers-' households were registered in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Ja...
_THE SONS OF LEVI, THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS, WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES, EVEN UNTIL THE DAYS OF JOHANAN THE SON OF ELIASHIB._ The sons of Levi ... were written in the book of the Chro...
12:23 Johanan (d-21) Jonathan, ver. 11....
THE BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES] some official record, not the 'Chronicles' of the OT....
THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM 1. The priests] The names in Nehemiah 12:1 likewise appear with some variations in Nehemiah 10:3 see also Ezra 2:36....
THE *JEWS BUILD JERUSALEM’S CITY WALL AGAIN NEHEMIAH _ROBERT BRYCE AND ROBERT BETTS_ CHAPTER 12 V1 This is a list of the priests and *Levites who returned from *exile. They returned with Zerubbabe...
The people kept records for many years of the families of the priests and the *Levites. (Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua were the chief priests during these years.) These records were very import...
THE LEVITES. — Here is an evident interpolation. The writer says that the records of the heads of courses was continued down to Jaddua and Darius Codomannus....
(12-26) List of representatives of Zerubbabel’s priests in the days of Joiakim; to which is added an account of the Levites in his day. Between these there is an interpolation (Nehemiah 12:22)....
בְּנֵ֤י לֵוִי֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הָֽ אָבֹ֔ות כְּתוּבִ֕ים...
Here the story of the settlement of the people in Jerusalem is completed. This IS followed by an account o f the solemn dedication of the wall. It would seem as though it had been postponed for some c...
_Chronicles. Not those which are now extant: but some records which regarded the families of the priests. See 1 Esdras ii. 61. --- The son, or grandson of Eliasib. The author refers to others records,...
It should seem that the service of the gates, appointed by David, the people of the captivity were anxious to revive. But how it was performed, or what particular service made use of, is not known....
It's Not How You Start I. INTRODUCTION 1. In Nehemiah 12:44-47 = people were appointed over the store rooms to collect the tithes, offerings, and firstfruits. a) Priests and singers were re-appoint...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 AND 13. We have already seen that gladness was the portion of the people; a joy which acknowledged God, for God had preserved the people and had blessed th...
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, [were] written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib. Ver. 23. _In the book of the chronicles_] _sc._ 1 Chronic...
_Written in the book of the Chronicles_ That is, in the public annals or registers, in which the genealogies of the several families were recorded by the Jews with great exactness, as all persons agre...
1 The Priests, 8 and the Leuites which came vp with Zerubbabel. 10 The succession of hie Priests. 22 Certaine chiefe Leuites. 27 The solemnitie of the dedication of the walls. 44 The offices of P...
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, the public registers in which the genealogical lists were kept, EVEN UNTIL THE DAYS OF JOHANAN, THE SON OF ELIAS...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO CAME UP WITH ZERUBBABEL...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES (vv. 1-26) In these verses God sees fit to list the names of the priests and Levites who came to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel in the first return for the rebuilding of the city. Ezr...
1-26 It is a debt we owe to faithful ministers, to remember our guides, who have spoken to us the word of God. It is good to know what our godly predecessors were, that we may learn what we should be....
Nehemiah 12:23 sons H1121 Levi H3878 heads H7218 fathers H1 days H3117 Johanan H3110 son H1121 Eliashib H475 writte
DETAILS CONCERNING THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO RETURNED WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THOSE WHO SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED (NEHEMIAH 12:1). The importance of the genuinely appointed Priests and Levites to the new...
THE LEVITES WHO WERE HEADS OF FATHERS' HOUSES IN THE DAYS OF JOIAKIM THE SON OF JESHUA AND OF NEHEMIAH THE GOVERNOR AND OF EZRA THE PRIEST (NEHEMIAH 12:22). It is now pointed out by the writer that th...
CONTENTS: Priests and Levites who went to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel. Dedication of the walls. CHARACTERS: God, Nehemiah, Ezra, Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Seraiah, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Great mercies call f...
Nehemiah 12:47. _They sanctified unto the levites, and the levites sanctified unto the children of Aaron._ They dedicated and delivered not only the tithes, and the tithe of the tithes, as stated in N...
_Were written in the book of the chronicles._ A BOOK I. A book unites the ages. Brings the past into the present; borrows the future to give the present significance. The “sceptred spirits of histor...
NEHEMIAH 12:1 High Priests and Leading Levites since the Time of Zerubbabel. This section records the priests and Levites from the time of Zerubbabel (c. 538–535 B.C.) to Nehemiah. The aim is to show...
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 12:22 As with the priests, a record of Levites was kept by families. ⇐ ⇔
NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 12:23 BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. This is not the biblical book of that name, but simply a record of names, perhaps kept by the priests....
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The list of the inhabitants of the province (chap. 11) is followed by lists of the priests and Levites (Nehemiah 12:1). These different lists are, in fact, all connected with the...
EXPOSITION LIST OF THE LEVITICAL AND PRIESTLY FAMILIES WHICH RETURNED FROM BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL (Nehemiah 12:1). This list receives elucidation and, to some ext
In chapter 12: Now these are the priests and the Levites (Nehemiah 12:1) And so it gives the names of those priests and Levites that were serving at the time, and it gives their genealogy in verses N...
1 Chronicles 9:14...