Nehemiah 7:73

_SO THE PRIESTS, AND THE LEVITES, AND THE PORTERS, AND THE SINGERS, AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE NETHINIMS, AND ALL ISRAEL, DWELT IN THEIR CITIES; AND WHEN THE SEVENTH MONTH CAME, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE IN THEIR CITIES._ So ... all Israel, dwelt in their cities. The utility of these genealogical registers was thus found in guiding to a knowledge of the cities and localities in each tribe to which every family anciently belonged. This verse is borrowed from Ezra 3:1....

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 Nehemiah 7:73. _ALL ISRAEL, DWELT IN THEIR CITIES_] It was in reference to this particularly that the public registers were examined; for by them they found the different _families_, and consequently the cities, villages, c., which belonged to them, according to the _ancient division_ of the lands. It seems that the examination of the registers occupied about a _month_ for as soon as the walls were finished, which was in the _sixth_ month, (_Elul_,) Nehemiah 6:15, Nehemiah instituted the examination mentioned in this chapter, Nehemiah 7:5; and by the _concluding_ verse we find that the different families had got into their paternal cities in the _seventh month, Tisri_, answe...

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

SEVENTH MONTH That is, October; also, (Nehemiah 8:2); (Nehemiah 8:14)....

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....

THE NETHINIMS. See note on Ezra 2:43. THE SEVENTH MONTH. This was in 426 B. C, not in 404 B. C, which is referred to in Nehemiah 9:1 and Ezra 9:1. See App-58....

some] R.V. SOME. The Heb. gives the partitive idea. (LXX. οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ. Vulg. -reliquum vulgus.") _Nethinims_ R.V. NETHINIM....