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Verse 25. _THE THRESHOLDS OF THE GATES._] Some understand this of a
sort of _porticoes_ at the gates, and are puzzled about it, because
they find no mention of porticoes elsewhere: but why may we not...
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In 1Ch 9:17, 1 Chronicles 9:24, 1 Chronicles 9:26, four families of
porters only are mentioned; six are implied here, in Nehemiah 7:45,
and in...
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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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PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO RETURNED WITH JESHUA AND ZERUBBABEL, AND
EXTRACTS FROM OTHER LISTS. The details here given were, in all
probability, taken largely from the Temple archives.
Nehemiah 12:1. _Cf....
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WARD. charge.
THRESHOLDS. gatherings or storehouses....
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Nehemiah 11:1 TO NEHEMIAH 12:26. Extracts from Registers and Public
Lists
1, 2. Measures taken to increase the number of dwellers in Jerusalem.
This passage seems to take up the thread which had bee...
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_Mattaniah_ Cf. Nehemiah 12:8; Nehemiah 11:17. Mattaniah representing
Asaphites.
_Bakbukiah_ Cf. Nehemiah 12:9; Nehemiah 11:17,
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4. Levites are listed from the time of Joiakim.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:22-26
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As for the Levites, the heads of fathers-' households were registered
in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Ja...
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_MATTANIAH, AND BAKBUKIAH, OBADIAH, MESHULLAM, TALMON, AKKUB, WERE
PORTERS KEEPING THE WARD AT THE THRESHOLDS OF THE GATES._ 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 THRESHOLDS] RV 'the storehouses.'...
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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 kept records for many years of the families of the priests
and the *Levites. (Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua were the chief
priests during these years.) These records were very import...
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(12-26) List of representatives of Zerubbabel’s priests in the days
of Joiakim; to which is added an account of the Levites in his day.
Between these there is an interpolation (Nehemiah 12:22)....
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AT THE THRESHOLDS. — _At the treasuries,_ or _store-chambers_
attached to the several gates of the Temple....
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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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_Entrances. These are not distinctly mentioned before. See 1
Paralipomenon xxvi. 15, 17., and Ezechiel xl. 8. (Calmet) ---
Septuagint have only, after order, or him, ver. 25. "When I assembled
the doo...
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It should seem that the service of the gates, appointed by David, the
people of the captivity were anxious to revive. But how it was
performed, or what particular service made use of, is not known....
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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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_Written in the book of the Chronicles_ That is, in the public annals
or registers, in which the genealogies of the several families were
recorded by the Jews with great exactness, as all persons agre...
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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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Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were
porters, although the names of some singers are included, KEEPING THE
WARD AT THE THRESHOLDS OF THE GATES, at the chambers for storage...
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PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO CAME UP WITH ZERUBBABEL...
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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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THRESHOLDS:
Or, treasuries, or assemblies...
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1-26 It is a debt we owe to faithful ministers, to remember our
guides, who have spoken to us the word of God. It is good to know what
our godly predecessors were, that we may learn what we should be....
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To wit, of the temple, their watching-place being close by the
thresholds of the gates, as it now is....
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Nehemiah 12:25 Mattaniah H4983 Bakbukiah H1229 Obadiah H5662 Meshullam
H4918 Talmon H2929 Akkub H6126 gatekeepers H7778 keeping...
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THE LEVITES WHO WERE HEADS OF FATHERS' HOUSES IN THE DAYS OF JOIAKIM
THE SON OF JESHUA AND OF NEHEMIAH THE GOVERNOR AND OF EZRA THE PRIEST
(NEHEMIAH 12:22).
It is now pointed out by the writer that th...
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DETAILS CONCERNING THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHO RETURNED WITH
ZERUBBABEL, AND THOSE WHO SUBSEQUENTLY DEVELOPED (NEHEMIAH 12:1).
The importance of the genuinely appointed Priests and Levites to the
new...
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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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_Were written in the book of the chronicles._
A BOOK
I. A book unites the ages. Brings the past into the present; borrows
the future to give the present significance. The “sceptred spirits
of histor...
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NEHEMIAH 12:1 High Priests and Leading Levites since the Time of
Zerubbabel. This section records the priests and Levites from the time
of Zerubbabel (c. 538–535 B.C.) to Nehemiah. The aim is to show...
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NEHEMIAH—NOTE ON NEHEMIAH 12:24 This is a similar record (see v.
Nehemiah 12:23) for the time of Joiakim and later (see v....
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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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EXPOSITION
LIST OF THE LEVITICAL AND PRIESTLY FAMILIES WHICH RETURNED FROM
BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL (Nehemiah 12:1). This list receives
elucidation and, to some ext
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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 23:32; 1 Chronicles 26:12; 1 Chronicles 9:14; Isaiah
21:8;...