Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Nehemiah 12:8
Moreover, &c. — He was to see, that the psalms of thanksgiving were continually sung in the temple, in due time and manner.
Moreover, &c. — He was to see, that the psalms of thanksgiving were continually sung in the temple, in due time and manner.
Verse Nehemiah 12:8. _OVER THE THANKSGIVING_] The principal singers: Nehemiah 11:17, Nehemiah 11:17....
Of the Levitical houses here mentioned, three only returned at first, those of Jeshua, Kadmiel, and Judah or Hodevah Nehemiah 7:43. The others must have returned subsequently....
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 LEVITES. Compare Ezra 2:40 with Ezr 7:43, above....
_Moreover the Levites_ This list of Levite houses which returned along with Zerubbabel consists of eight names, Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Unni. In Ezra 2:40-42,...
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...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT Having given an honor roll of those who accepted the discomforts of living in Jerusalem in order to assure a strong and healthy state, the book next gives an honor roll...
_MIAMIN, MAADIAH, BILGAH,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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 LEVITES] cp. Nehemiah 10:9. OVER THE THANKSGIVING] RM 'over the choirs.'...
Nehemiah recorded the names of the first priests and *Levites to return from *exile. Zerubbabel led these people back to *Judah about 93 years before the time when Nehemiah and his companions returned...
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...
וְ הַ לְוִיִּ֗ם יֵשׁ֧וּעַ בִּנּ֛וּי קַדְמִיאֵ֥ל...
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...
Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, (c) [which was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. (c) Had charge of them who sang the psalms....
_Hymns. To preside over the bands, chap. xi. 17. (Calmet)_...
It should seem that the office of superintending the subjects of thanksgiving, was of no small importance in the priests' employment, by the testimony here given....
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...
Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, [which was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren. Ver. 8. _Which was over the thanksgiving_] _Praefectus Musicu...
_Moreover the Levites, which were over the thanksgiving_ Appointed to see that the psalms of thanksgiving were continually sung in the temple, in due time and manner. _Also, their brethren were over a...
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...
Moreover, the Levites: Joshua, Binnul, Kadmid, Sherebiah, ludah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, the choirmaster, or the leader in striking up the psalms of thanksgiving, as sung in th...
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...
THE THANKSGIVING: That is, the Psalms of thanksgiving...
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....
No text from Poole on this verse....
Nehemiah 12:8 Levites H3881 Jeshua H3442 Binnui H1131 Kadmiel H6934 Sherebiah H8274 Judah H3063 Mattaniah H4983 thanksgiving...
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...
LIST OF THE LEADING PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO WENT UP WITH ZERUBBABEL FROM EXILE (NEHEMIAH 12:1). The list is divided into two parts, the names of chiefs of the priests, and the names of the (leading) L...
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...
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 9:33; Nehemiah 10:9; Nehemiah 11:17; Nehemiah 11:22;...