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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...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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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
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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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_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...
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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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THE PROVINCE] i.e. Judæa: Ezra 5:8....
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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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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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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...
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וְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ רָאשֵׁ֣י הַ מְּדִינָ֔ה
אֲשֶׁ֥ר יָ
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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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_Solomon. See 1 Esdras ii. 55., and 1 Paralipomenon ix. 2._...
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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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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...
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 11:3 The TEMPLE SERVANTS, along with
gatekeepers and singers (vv. Nehemiah 11:19,...
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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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1 Chronicles 9:1; Ezra 2:1; Ezra 2:43; Ezra 2:55; Ezra 2:55;...
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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...