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See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts
from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of
his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the...
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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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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4....
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_Shabbethai … Jozabad_ See these names in Nehemiah 8:7. They do not
occur in the parallel list of 1 Chronicles 9:15-16, where however
three other names, Heresh, Galal, and Berechiah are inserted.
_ch...
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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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4. Levites.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 11:15-19
15
Now from the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam,
the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
16
and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leade...
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_AND SHABBETHAI AND JOZABAD, OF THE CHIEF OF THE LEVITES, HAD THE
OVERSIGHT OF THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD._
The oversight of the outward business of the house of God - i:e.,
those thing...
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THE OUTWARD BUSINESS OF] Perhaps the judicial administration described
in 2 Chronicles 19:8; 1 Chronicles 26:29....
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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 *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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Nehemiah recorded the names of the priests and the *Levites who lived
in Jerusalem. The priests led the people when they *worshipped God.
The *Levites helped the priests and they looked after the *sac...
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OUTWARD BUSINESS. — This is a remarkable specification of the
functions of the Lévites, parallel with the “valour” of the
priests just before. The preceding chapter explains the “outward
business.”...
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(4-19) The heads in Jerusalem: as compared with 1 Chronicles 9, by no
means complete. Judah and Benjamin are represented, with priests and
Levites and porters....
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וְ שַׁבְּתַ֨י וְ יֹוזָבָ֜ד עַל ־הַ
מְּלָאכָ֤ה
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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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_Outward. For repairs of the temple, cultivation of the lands given by
vow; also to buy provisions, sacred vestments, &c._...
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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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_The outward business of the house of God_ For those things belonging
to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or
abroad in the country, as the gathering in of the voluntary
co...
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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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and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levite. had the
oversight of the outward business of the house of God, all the work
which did not concern sacrifices and worship, especially the
collect...
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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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i.e. For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which
were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as for the
gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary
pr...
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Nehemiah 11:16 Shabbethai H7678 Jozabad H3107 heads H7218 Levites
H3881 oversight H2435 business H4399 house H1004 God...
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OF THE LEVITES (NEHEMIAH 11:15).
A number of Levites also took up permanent residence in Jerusalem in
order to aid its new beginning. They would do so with high hopes.
Nehemiah 11:15
‘And of the Le...
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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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_Had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God._
THE SECULAR IN SACRED SERVICE
I. It is possible to secularise the sacred. When sacred service is
entered upon from secular motives; w...
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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 11:15 THE LEVITES were responsible for THE
OUTSIDE WORK OF THE HOUSE OF GOD, a lesser role than that of the
priests in v....
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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 26:20; Acts 6:2; Acts 6:3; Nehemiah 8:7...
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Outward — For those things belonging to the temple and its service,
which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as the
gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary
p...