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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 becam...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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12:44 time (c-4) Or 'on that day.'...
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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....
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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.'...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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(44-47) Economical arrangements....
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וַ יִּפָּקְד֣וּ בַ † יֹּום֩ הַ ה֨וּא...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Expiation. Or the legal purifications, (Menochius) when necessary.
(Haydock)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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CERTAIN OFFICERS APPOINTED...
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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...
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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...
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OF THE LAW:
that is, appointed by the law
FOR JUDAH:
_ Heb._ for the joy of Judah
THAT WAITED:
_ Heb._ that stood...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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PART IV.
DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM UNDER NEHEMIAH AND EZRA, WITH
NEHEMIAH'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE OFFICERS, AND HIS...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 23:28; 1 Chronicles 26:21; 1 Chronicles 9:26; 2
Chronicles 13:11;...
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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...