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Verse 30. _THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES PURIFIED THEMSELVES_] This
consisted in washings, abstinence from wine, and other matters, which,
on all other occasions, were lawful. And as to the purifying of...
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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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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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_purified themselves_ Cf. Ezra 6:20. The description of the sacrifices
offered by Hezekiah on the occasion of a national purification should
be compared, 2 Chronicles 29:20-24.
_the people … the gates...
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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...
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_AND THE SONS OF THE SINGERS GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, BOTH OUT OF
THE PLAIN COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM, AND FROM THE VILLAGES OF
NETOPHATHI;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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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 *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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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...
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(27-43) The dedication of the wall. Henceforth Nehemiah speaks in his
own person....
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PURIFIED THEMSELVES. — Before consecration to God there must be
purification from defilement. It is made emphatic that both priests
and Levites purified themselves, that is, by offerings and ablutions...
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וַ יִּֽטַּהֲר֔וּ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְ הַ
לְוִיִּ֑
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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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Were purified first, that they might purify the rest. (Haydock) ---
Priests were obliged to abstain from wine, and from their wives, while
they were on duty. See 2 Paralipomenon xxix. 34., and xxxv. 2...
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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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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the
people, and the gates, and the wall.
Ver. 30. _Purified themselves, and purified the people_] But first
themselves; because whoso...
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_The singers had built them villages_, &c. That they might be near at
hand for the service of God and of his house. _The priests and the
Levites purified themselves_ By sprinkling the water of purific...
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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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And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the
people and the gates and the wall, most likely by a series of
prescribed sacrifices and such other ceremonies as the Law and custom...
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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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Partly by sprinkling the water of purification upon them, by which the
tabernacle and sacred utensils were purified, NUM 8; and partly by
solemn prayers and sacrifices....
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Nehemiah 12:30 priests H3548 Levites H3881 purified H2891 (H8691)
purified H2891 (H8762) people H5971 gates H8179
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THE PREPARATORY PURIFYING OF ALL INVOLVED (NEHEMIAH 12:30).
The presence of the priests is assumed. For unlike the Levites, who
were dependent on the then non-existent tithes (Nehemiah 13:10), the
pri...
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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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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...
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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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_And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the
people._
BEGINNING AT THE RIGHT PLACE
I. A pure church may make a sound commonwealth. “They purified
themselves.” Like priest,...
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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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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 12:30 They had PURIFIED THEMSELVES, as in
readiness for worship (see Exodus 19:10,...
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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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2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 29:5; Exodus 19:10; Exodus 19:15;...