Verse Nehemiah 12:7. The chief of the priests] They were twenty-four orders or courses in number, all subordinate to each other; as established by David, 1 Chronicles 24:18. And these orders or courses were continued till the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. See Calmet.
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...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO RETURNED WITH JESHUA AND ZERUBBABEL, AND EXTRACTS FROM OTHER LISTS. The details here given were, in all probability, taken largely from the Temple archives. Nehemiah 12:1. _Cf....
CHIEF. heads....
_chief_ R.V. CHIEFS. _in the days of Jeshua_ Cf. Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2....
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...
TEXT AND VERSE-BY-VERSE COMMENT Having given an honor roll of those who accepted the discomforts of living in Jerusalem in order to assure a strong and healthy state, the book next gives an honor roll...
_MIAMIN, MAADIAH, BILGAH,_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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....
Nehemiah recorded the names of the first priests and *Levites to return from *exile. Zerubbabel led these people back to *Judah about 93 years before the time when Nehemiah and his companions returned...
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...
THESE WERE THE CHIEF. — Genealogically, but not according to the courses, which are in none of the lists complete....
סַלּ֣וּ עָמֹ֔וק חִלְקִיָּ֖ה יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה אֵ֣לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֧י...
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...
Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These [were] the (b) chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua. (b) Next in dignity to the high priests and who were of the stock of Aaron....
_Chief. Heads of the 24 great families, 1 Paralipomenon xxiv. 18._...
It should seem that the office of superintending the subjects of thanksgiving, was of no small importance in the priests' employment, by the testimony here given....
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...
_These were the chief of the priests_ The heads of the courses of the priests instituted by David, which were restored after their return from captivity, though as yet they were not so many as they ha...
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...
Sallu (or Sallai), AMOK, HILKIAH, JEDAIAH. THESE WERE THE CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS AND OF THEIR BRETHREN IN THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, the heads of the courses which remained of the twenty-four into which the pr...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO CAME UP WITH ZERUBBABEL...
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...
SALLU: Or, Sallai...
1-26 It is a debt we owe to faithful ministers, to remember our guides, who have spoken to us the word of God. It is good to know what our godly predecessors were, that we may learn what we should be....
OF THEIR BRETHREN, i.e. of the priests, who were their brethren....
Nehemiah 12:7 Sallu H5543 Amok H5987 Hilkiah H2518 Jedaiah H3048 heads H7218 priests H3548 brethren H251 days H3117
DETAILS CONCERNING THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO RETURNED WITH ZERUBBABEL, AND THOSE WHO SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED (NEHEMIAH 12:1). The importance of the genuinely appointed Priests and Levites to the new...
LIST OF THE LEADING PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO WENT UP WITH ZERUBBABEL FROM EXILE (NEHEMIAH 12:1). The list is divided into two parts, the names of chiefs of the priests, and the names of the (leading) L...
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...
_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 12:1 High Priests and Leading Levites since the Time of Zerubbabel. This section records the priests and Levites from the time of Zerubbabel (c. 538–535 B.C.) to Nehemiah. The aim is to show...
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...
EXPOSITION LIST OF THE LEVITICAL AND PRIESTLY FAMILIES WHICH RETURNED FROM BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL (Nehemiah 12:1). This list receives elucidation and, to some ext
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 24:18; Ezra 3:2; Haggai 1:1; Nehemiah 12:1; Nehemiah 12:2