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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...
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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...
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OFFERED. Hebrew. _zabach._ App-43.
CHILDREN. offspring....
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_Also that day_ R.V. AND … THAT DAY.
_great sacrifices_ Cf. Ezra 6:17.
_God had made them rejoice_, &c. 2 Chronicles 20:27, -for the Lord had
made them to rejoice over their enemies."
_the wives als...
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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...
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6. The processional and dedication ceremonies are described.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:31-43
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Then I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I
appointed two great choirs, the first proce...
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_ALSO THAT DAY THEY OFFERED GREAT SACRIFICES, AND REJOICED: FOR GOD
HAD MADE THEM REJOICE WITH GREAT JOY: THE WIVES ALSO AND THE CHILDREN
REJOICED: SO THAT THE JOY OF JERUSALEM WAS HEARD EVEN AFAR OFF...
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12:43 offered (b-5) _ Zevach_ . lit. 'sacrificed.'...
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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....
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The two groups met again at the *temple, which was the house of God.
There they praised and they thanked God. The priests led with their
*trumpets. But all the people praised and thanked God. They wer...
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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...
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REJOICED. — This verse is full of joy; but before the rejoicing
comes the abundant offering of sacrifices....
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(27-43) The dedication of the wall. Henceforth Nehemiah speaks in his
own person....
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וַ יִּזְבְּח֣וּ בַ † יֹּום ־הַ֠ הוּא...
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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...
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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...
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Thanksgiving. St. Jerome, Septuagint, and Syriac have read in a
different manner from the present Hebrew, (Calmet which has, "for the
tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities, the
po...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_For God had made them rejoice with great joy_ By restoring the holy
city to such a secure condition, that they could praise the Lord there
without disturbance or fear. _And the children rejoiced_ And...
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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...
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Also that day they offered great sacrifices, thank-offerings combined
with a great sacrificial feast, AND REJOICED; FOR GOD HAD MADE THEM
REJOICE WITH GREAT JOY; THE WIVES ALSO AND THE CHILDREN REJOIC...
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THE WALLS DEDICATED...
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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...
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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...
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Either their loud voices and instruments were heard to a great
distance, or the fame of it was spread far and near....
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Nehemiah 12:43 day H3117 offered H2076 (H8799) great H1419 sacrifices
H2077 rejoiced H8055 (H8799) God H430 rejo
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THE CULMINATION OF THE CELEBRATIONS WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE TEMPLE
(NEHEMIAH 12:43).
The processions on or about the wall having been completed the people
gathered in the Temple area and offered large...
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THE TWO COMPANIES MEET AND GREAT SACRIFICES ARE OFFERED (NEHEMIAH
12:38).
The other procession was led by ‘those who gave thanks' (the singers
and musicians) followed by Nehemiah himself, leading the...
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THOSE TAKING PART IN THE CEREMONY ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GREAT COMPANIES
WHO PROCEED TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE WALL, ONE COMPANY GOING ONE WAY AND
THE OTHER COMPANY THE OTHER (NEHEMIAH 12:31).
Nehemiah now...
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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...
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Nehemiah 2:17 ; NEHEMIAH 6:15; NEHEMIAH 12:43
I. Consider the fact of declension, decadence, degeneration, from a
Divine type. Of this we have two instances: in Israel and in the
Church. (1) Under the...
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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...
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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...
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_Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced._
A GREAT REJOICING
A great rejoicing as it should be.
I. Associated with the bites of religion.
II. The outcome of a great deliverance....
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_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 t...
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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...
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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...
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PART IV.
DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM UNDER NEHEMIAH AND EZRA, WITH
NEHEMIAH'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE OFFICERS, AND HIS...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:21; 1 Chronicles 29:22; 1 Samuel 4:5; 2 Chronicles
20:13;...
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The children rejoiced — And their hosanna's were not despised, but
are recorded to their praise. All that share in public mercies, ought
to join in public thanksgivings....