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Nehemiah 12:27-43

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 to set apart the holy city for its sacred ends.

III. It was desired to invoke the Divine blessing and guardianship on the city of God.

IV. It is beautiful to observe how fully the domestic affections are cherished and displayed. “The wives also and the children rejoiced.” (W. Ritchie.)

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See also Nehemiah 12:27-43 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WITH THANKSGIVINGS. Psalms 14. would have been. suitable psalm for the occasion, and Psalms 122....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (27-43) The dedication of the wall. Henceforth Nehemiah speaks in his own person....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בַ חֲנֻכַּ֞ת חֹומַ֣ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם בִּקְשׁ֤וּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WALLS DEDICATED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nehemiah 12:27 dedication H2598 wall H2346 Jerusalem H3389 sought H1245 (H8765) Levites H3881 places H4725 bring H93

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    PART IV. DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM UNDER NEHEMIAH AND EZRA, WITH NEHEMIAH'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE OFFICERS, AND HIS...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 15:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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