Judah rejoiced - Judah’s satisfaction with the priests and Levites took the shape of increased offerings, more ample tithes, and the like, from where the appointment of treasuries and treasurers became necessary.
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...
PROVISION FOR THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES. Probably an insertion by the Chronicler. Nehemiah 12:44. on that day: better, with AV, at that time, which is, in accordance with the Heb., more indefinite (_cf....
SOME. men. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. OFFERINGS. heave offerings. INTO THEM. by them: i.e. these officers; not into the chambers, for "chambers" is fem, and "them" is masculine OF THE LAW. So in Cod...
_at that time_ R.V. ON THAT DAY. This is not an allusion to the day of rejoicing in the previous verse (-that day" Nehemiah 12:43), but a general definition of time which the Compiler uses again in Ne...
7. Concern is expressed over the support of the Levites. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:44-47 44 On that day men were also appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits, and the...
_AND AT THAT TIME WERE SOME APPOINTED OVER THE CHAMBERS FOR THE TREASURES, FOR THE OFFERINGS, FOR THE FIRSTFRUITS, AND FOR THE TITHES, TO GATHER INTO THEM OUT OF THE FIELDS OF THE CITIES THE PORTIONS...
12:44 time (c-4) Or 'on that day.'...
OUT OF THE FIELDS] RV 'according to the fields': alluding to certain arrangements for storing. PORTIONS OF THE LAW] RV 'portions appointed by the law.'...
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...
Only the *descendants of Aaron could serve as priests. So the phrase ‘the *descendants of Aaron’ means the priests. Although the people were having a happy time they had to think about the future of...
FOR JUDAH REJOICED. — Not only was the Temple service restored to something like the completeness of the Davidical period, the people also everywhere took pleasure in the ministrations of the Temple,...
(44-47) Economical arrangements....
וַ יִּפָּקְד֣וּ בַ † יֹּום֩ הַ ה֨וּא...
BEGINNINGS Nehemiah 12:27 A CURIOUS feature of the history of the restoration of Israel already met with several times is postponement. Thus in the days of Cyrus. Zerubbabel leads up an expedition fo...
NEGLECT OF RELIGIOUS DUTIES Nehemiah 12:44; Nehemiah 13:1 In Nehemiah 12:44 we have recorded the care that was manifested for the worthy maintenance of those who ministered in sacred things. As a res...
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...
And at that time were some appointed (m) over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portio...
_Expiation. Or the legal purifications, (Menochius) when necessary. (Haydock)_...
I pass over every inferior consideration in those verses, to call the Reader's attention to what appears to me infinitely surpassing every other: I mean, that the holy songs of Nehemiah were evidently...
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...
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions o...
_For the offerings_ Such as they had lately engaged themselves to give, or other voluntary or prescribed offerings. _To gather out of the fields the portions of the law_ That is, the aforesaid first-f...
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...
CERTAIN OFFICERS APPOINTED...
And at that time, at the Festival of the Dedication, WERE SOME APPOINTED OVER THE CHAMBERS FOR THE TREASURES, the cells or rooms where the gifts to the Temple were stored, FOR THE OFFERINGS, FOR THE F...
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...
OF THE LAW: that is, appointed by the law FOR JUDAH: _ Heb._ for the joy of Judah THAT WAITED: _ Heb._ that stood...
44-47 When the solemnities of a thanksgiving day leave such impressions on ministers and people, that both are more careful and cheerful in doing their duty, they are indeed acceptable to the Lord, an...
FOR THE OFFERINGS; such as they had lately engaged themselves to give, or other voluntary or prescribed offerings. THE PORTIONS OF THE LAW, i.e. the foresaid first-fruits, and tithes, and other things...
Nehemiah 12:44 time H3117 some H582 appointed H6485 (H8735) rooms H5393 storehouse H214 offerings H8641 firstfruits H
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TEMPLE TREASURY, AND THE CHAMBERS TO CONTAIN THE HEAVE-OFFERINGS, FIRSTFRUITS AND TITHES THAT WERE OFFERED TO YHWH, THEIR RESTORATION, AND THE EXCLUSION OF ALL WHO RELIGIOUSLY...
MEN APPOINTED OVER THE STORAGE CHAMBERS IN THE TEMPLE AND ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE FOR THE GATHERING OF THE OFFERINGS AND TITHES FOR THE SUSTENANCE OF THE GOD-ORDAINED PRIESTS AND LEVITES (NEHEMIAH 12:44...
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...
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...
PART IV. DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM UNDER NEHEMIAH AND EZRA, WITH NEHEMIAH'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE OFFICERS, AND HIS...
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 23:28; 1 Chronicles 26:21; 1 Chronicles 9:26; 2 Chronicles 13:11;...
Rejoiced — For the eminent gifts and graces which they observed in many of them: for the great benefit which they had now received by their ministry: and for the competent provision which hereby was m...