Nehemiah 10:11

Micha R.V. Mica.

There are 17 names of -Levites" or -Levitical houses": of these 17, we find four, i.e. Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel and Sherebiah, mentioned in Nehemiah 12:8 among -those that went up with Zerubbabel"; and seven (i.e. Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Kelita, Hanan and Pelaiah) in Nehemiah 8:7; and eight (i.e. Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Sherebiah, Chenani = Hanan, Hashabneiah = Hashabiah, Hodiah) in Nehemiah 9:4-5. It is to be observed that (a) besides Binnui, we have also Bani and Beninu (see note on Nehemiah 9:4); (b) the names Hodiah and Shebaniah occur twice in the present list; (c) only four names, i.e. Mica, Rehob, Zaccur and Beninu, fail to appear in the other lists, and of these Mica and Rehob do not occur elsewhere, while Beninu is possibly a wrong reading for Bani or Binnui, and Zaccur's name may be the same as -the son of Asaph" (Nehemiah 12:35) or -the father of Hanan" (Nehemiah 13:13) or -the son of Imri" (Nehemiah 3:2); (d) as in the case of the priests, the names represent divisions or houses of the Levites, not individuals.