Verse Nehemiah 11:3. _NOW THESE_ ARE _THE CHIEF_] A good deal of difference will be found between the _enumeration_ here and that in 1 Chronicles 9:2, c. _There_, those only who came with Zerubbabel...
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...
CHIEFS. heads. BUT. and. ISRAEL. See note on 1 Kings 12:17. The common name of the nation, not of the ten tribes merely. THE NETHINIMS. See note on Ezra 2:43. CHILDREN. sons. Compare Ezr 7:57. Ezr...
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...
_Now these are the chief_, &c. The heading of our list differs from that in 1 Chronicles 9:2, which runs, -Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, Israel, the p...
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...
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...
_NOW THESE ARE THE CHIEF OF THE PROVINCE THAT DWELT IN JERUSALEM: BUT IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH DWELT EVERY ONE IN HIS POSSESSION IN THEIR CITIES, TO WIT, ISRAEL, THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND THE NE...
THE PROVINCE] i.e. Judæa: Ezra 5:8....
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...
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...
OF THE PROVINCE. — This betrays the hand of Nehemiah, who was still a Persian official as well as a governor of Judah; and it shows that here we have a general heading for the rest of the chapter. Bot...
וְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הַ מְּדִינָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָ
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...
_Solomon. See 1 Esdras ii. 55., and 1 Paralipomenon ix. 2._...
(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...
Now these [are] the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the...
_These are the chief of the province_ Of Judea, which was now made a province. _Israel_ The generality of the people of Israel, whether of Judah, or Benjamin, or any other tribe. These he calls Israel...
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...
Now, these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem, the leading men of Judea, A VERY SMALL PART OF THE VAST PERSIAN EMPIRE; BUT IN THE CITIES OF JUDAH DWELT EVERY ONE IN HIS POSSESSION I...
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...
THE CHIEF OF THE PROVINCE, i.e. of Judea, which was now made a province. TO WIT, ISRAEL, i.e. the generality of the people of Israel, whether of Judah, or Benjamin, or any other tribe; as appears by t...
Nehemiah 11:3 heads H7218 province H4082 dwelt H3427 (H8804) Jerusalem H3389 cities H5892 Judah H3063 everyone H376
THE NAMES OF THE CHIEF MEN WHO TOOK UP DWELLING IN JERUSALEM (NEHEMIAH 11:3). A parallel list of those who ‘dwelt in Jerusalem' is found in 1 Chronicles 9, but it is widely different from this list, a...
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...
_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...
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 9:1; Ezra 2:1; Ezra 2:43; Ezra 2:55; Ezra 2:55;...
Province — Of Judea, which was now made a province. Israel — The generality of the people of Israel, whether of Judah, or Benjamin, or any other tribe. These he calls Israel rather than Judah, because...