Nehemiah 7:70

_AND SOME OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS GAVE UNTO THE WORK. THE TIRSHATHA GAVE TO THE TREASURE A THOUSAND DRAMS OF GOLD, FIFTY BASONS, FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY PRIESTS' GARMENTS._ Some of the chief of the fathers .... With Nehemiah 7:69 the register ends, and the thread of Nehemiah's history is resumed. He was the Tirshatha or governor, and the liberality displayed by him and some of the leading men, for the suitable equipment of the ministers of religion, forms the subject of the remaining portion of the chapter. Their donations consisted principally in garments. This would appear a singular description of gifts to be made by any one among us; but, in the East, a present of garments, or of any article of use, is conformable to the prevailing sentiments and customs of society. DRAMS OF GOLD - i:e., darics. A daric was a gold coin of ancient Persia, worth

5-73 Nehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upon the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every good work are from above. God gives knowledge, he gives grace; all is of him, and therefore all must be to him. What is done by human prudence, must be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. But woe to those who turn back from the Lord, loving this present world! and happy those who dedicate themselves, and their substance, to his service and glory!...

Verse 70. _THE TIRSHATHA GAVE_] The _Septuagint_, particularly the copy in the _Codex Alexandrinus_, intimates that this sum was given _to the Tirshatha_, or Nehemiah: Και τῳ Αθερσαθᾳ εδωκαν εις θησαυρον, _And to the Athersatha they gave for the treasure_, c. For the meaning of the word _Tirshatha_, see on Ezra 2:63....

Compared with Ezra 2:69 there is considerable difference between the totals for gold, silver, and garments. The usual explanation is that of corruption in the one or the other of the passages. Nehemiah 7:73 DWELT IN THEIR CITIES - Nehemiah’s quotation from Zerubbabel’s register ends here, and the narration of events in Jerusalem in his own day is resumed from Nehemiah 7:3. The narrative Nehemiah 8; Nehemiah 10 appears from internal evidence to be by a different author (see the introduction of the Book

EXPOSITION THE REGISTER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED UNDER ZERUBBABEL, WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR SLAVES, BEASTS, AND OBLATIONS (Nehemiah 7:6). It is no doubt a curious circumstance that this list should occur twice, with no important differences, in the two Books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Perhaps it was not in the original Ezra, that writer not having had the good fortune to "_find_"_ _the document; but Nehemiah having "found" it and inserted it here, in connection with its discovery, a later arranger (Malachi?) removed it to the early part of Ezra, because it belonged to that portion of t

CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Provisions made for the defense of the city (Nehemiah 7:1)_ 2. The genealogy (Nehemiah 7:5) 3. Their whole number (Nehemiah 7:66) 4. The gifts for the work (Nehemiah 7:70) Nehemiah 7:1. The wall had been finished and the doors set up. Porters, singers and the Levites were appointed, and Nehemiah gave to his brother Hanani and Hananiah, the ruler of the castle, charge over Jerusalem. The porters were gate keepers. These gate keepers are named in...

NEHEMIAH 7:5 A. ENUMERATION OF THE RETURNED EXILES. This section= Ezra 2:1; _cf._ the Greek Ezra 5:7. As this list is approximately the same as that of the exiles who returned under Zerubbabel, it must have come originally from the archives in Jerusalem....

SOME. a portion. CHIEFS. heads. GAVE. Nehemiah mentions what he, the chiefs, and the rest of the people gave. Ezra (Neh 2:68, Neh 2:69) mentions what only _one_ portion gave. Hence the numbers are necessarily different....

_And some of the chief of the fathers_ R.V. AND SOME FROM AMONG THE HEADS OF FATHERS" houses. So in Nehemiah 7:71. _The Tirshatha_ The contributions are here described in greater detail than in Ezra. _the treasure_ R.V. THE TREASURY. _drams_ R.V. DARICS. So in Nehemiah 7:71-72. _five hundred and thirty priests" garments_ See note on Ezra 2:69 for the conjecture -five hundred pound of silver and thirty priests" garments....

2. Nehemiah retraces the genealogies of first returning exiles. TEXT, NEHEMIAH 7:5-73 5 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first in which I found the following record: 6 These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city, 7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of men of the people of Israel: 8 the sons of Parosh, 2,172; 9 the sons of Shephatiah, 372; 10 the sons of Arah, 652; 11 the sons of Pahath-moab of the