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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...
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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)...
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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...
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From this verse to Nehemiah 12:26 we have a succession of lists: (1)
the chiefs of the provinces that dwelt in Jerusalem, 4 26; (2) the
towns and villages occupied by the Jews, 25 36; (3) the priests...
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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...
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2. People of Israel.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 11:3-9
3
Now these are the heads of the provinces who lived in Jerusalem, but
in the cities of Judah each lived on his own property in their
citiesthe Israelites...
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_AND MAASEIAH THE SON OF BARUCH, THE SON OF COLHOZEH, THE SON OF
HAZAIAH, THE SON OF ADAIAH, THE SON OF JOIARIB, THE SON OF ZECHARIAH,
THE SON OF SHILONI._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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...
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Many of the people lived on their own land in the other towns and
villages. Some of the rulers of the districts lived in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah recorded their names.
Some of them were *descendants of Ju...
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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...
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(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....
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וְ אַחֲרָ֖יו גַּבַּ֣י סַלָּ֑י
תְּשַׁ֥ע מֵאֹ֖ות...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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_Nine hundred twenty and eight_ So there were more of Benjamin than of
Judah, because the city did chiefly, and most properly, belong to that
tribe, as hath been observed before. _Joel was their overs...
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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...
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And after him Gabbai, Sallai, other Benjamite chiefs, NINE HUNDRED
TWENTY AND EIGHT....
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LIST OF THE LEADING MEN...
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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...
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So here were more of Benjamin than of Judah, because the city did
chiefly and most properly belong to that tribe, as hath been noted
before....
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Nehemiah 11:8 after H310 Gabbai H1373 Sallai H5543 nine H8672 hundred
H3967 twenty-eight H6242 H8083...
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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...
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OF THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN (NEHEMIAH 11:7).
Again when comparing with 1 Chronicles 9 there is not a single
duplication. A Sallu, the son of Meshullam, is mentioned in both, but
these were clearly pop...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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PART III.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE POPULATION OF JERUSALEM, WITH THE NUMBER OF THE
ADULT MALES, AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS. VARIOUS
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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)....
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Nehemiah 12:20...