Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nehemiah 12:27
They sought the Levites. — The dedication was to be processional and musical, as well as sacrificial: after the pattern of Solomon’s dedication of the Temple.
They sought the Levites. — The dedication was to be processional and musical, as well as sacrificial: after the pattern of Solomon’s dedication of the Temple.
Verse 27. _AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL_] They sent for the Levites from all quarters, that this dedication might be as solemn and majestic as possible; and it is likely that this was done as soon a...
THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL - The ceremony had been deferred for the space of nearly 12 years Nehemiah 13:6. Perhaps Nehemiah required an express permission from the Persian king before he could ventur...
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...
DEDICATION OF THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM. We should naturally expect this section to come after Nehemiah 6:15, where the completion of the walls is recorded; like so many others, this section has become m...
WITH THANKSGIVINGS. Psalms 14. would have been. suitable psalm for the occasion, and Psalms 122....
_at the dedication of the wall_ It is only natural to suppose that the dedication of the walls took place at no long interval after their completion. The walls were finished on the 25th of the month E...
The Dedication of the Walls In the description of this solemn event, there is a return to the use of the 1st Pers. Sing. (Nehemiah 12:31_; Nehemiah 12:38; Nehemiah 12:40_). The compiler returns to th...
AND AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL— Dedication was a religious ceremony, whereby a temple, altar, or vessel thereunto belonging, was, by the pronunciation of a certain form of blessing, consecrated to...
5. The Levites were assembled for the dedication of the wall. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:27-30 27 Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring t...
_AND AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM THEY SOUGHT THE LEVITES OUT OF ALL THEIR PLACES, TO BRING THEM TO JERUSALEM, TO KEEP THE DEDICATION WITH GLADNESS, BOTH WITH THANKSGIVINGS, AND WITH SIN...
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 DEDICATION OF THE WALL] It is reasonable to suppose that the dedication of the wall followed closely upon its completion (related in Nehemiah 6:15), so that the events described in Nehemiah 8-10 m...
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...
The people were happy because they had built the walls of Jerusalem again. They knew that God had helped them. And they wanted to thank God for his help. The job of the *Levites was to lead the people...
וּ בַ חֲנֻכַּ֞ת חֹומַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם בִּקְשׁ֤וּ...
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...
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...
_Wall. Some time before, (Usher; Calmet) or now, when the houses were completed. (Ven. Bede) (Tirinus) --- Places, for greater solemnity. The ancients deemed "the walls and gates sacred things, the pr...
Nehemiah had very largely described, in the former part of his book, the labours in building the wall; and therefore he will not pass over the dedication of it. The account is truly interesting. And a...
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 the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with sing...
_At the dedication of the wall_ Of the city itself, which is here dedicated to God, and to his honour and service, not only upon a general account, by which we ought to devote ourselves, and all that...
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...
THE WALLS DEDICATED...
And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, at the formal celebration following ITS COMPLETION, THEY SOUGHT THE LEVITES OUT OF ALL THEIR PLACES, since they were scattered throughout the province,...
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...
27-43 All our cities, all our houses, must have holiness to the Lord written upon them. The believer should undertake nothing which he does not dedicate to the Lord. We are concerned to cleanse our h...
AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL; and of the gates, which are mentioned NEHEMIAH 12:30; and of the city itself within the gates; which is here dedicated to God, and to his honour and service, not only up...
Nehemiah 12:27 dedication H2598 wall H2346 Jerusalem H3389 sought H1245 (H8765) Levites H3881 places H4725 bring H93
PURIFICATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL (NEHEMIAH 12:27). Having established the newly walled Jerusalem as ‘the holy city' (Nehemiah 11:1), properly inhabited by a people who were...
THE PURIFYING OF THE HOLY CITY (NEHEMIAH 12:27 TO NEHEMIAH 13:31). The prophecies concerning Jerusalem as ‘the holy city' had in mind the coming eschatalogical age, and its consequent purification (Is...
THE LEVITES ARE SOUGHT OUT TO PLAY THEIR PART IN THE CELEBRATIONS (NEHEMIAH 12:27). The emphasis at the commencement of the passage on the calling together of all the Levites from all around Judah bri...
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...
_And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem._ THE DEDICATION OF THE WALL In this dedication-- I. It was designed to offer thanks to God for the completion of a good work. II. It was intended t...
_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 12:27 Dedication of the Walls. This section describes the Levites’ role at the dedication of the completed city wall. Two great choirs precede the leaders in two companies on the wall, north...
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 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 15:28;...
The wall — Of the city itself, which is here dedicated to God, and to his honour and service, not only upon a general account, by which we ought to devote ourselves, and all that is ours, to God; but...