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Verse 29. _FROM THE HOUSE OF GILGAL, AND OUT OF THE FIELDS OF_ _GEBA
AND AZMAVETH_] Or, from Beth-Gilgal; a village erected in the place
where the Israelites encamped after they had, under the directi...
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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 HOUSE OF GILGAL. Hebrew Beth-Gilgal...
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_from the house of Gilgal_ R.V. FROM BETH-GILGAL. Possibly to be
identified with the Gilgal of 2 Kings 2:1; 2 Kings 4:38, and if so it
was about 14 miles N. of Jerusalem.
_Geba_ Cf. Nehemiah 11:31.
A...
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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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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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12:29 Beth-Gilgal, (g-3) Or 'the house of Gilgal.' hamlets (h-19) See
ch. 11.25....
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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 HOUSE OF GILGAL] RV 'Beth-gilgal.'...
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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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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 SINGERS. — As the Nethinim were settled in Ophel, so the class
of Levitical singers were chiefly to be found in villages to the north
of the city....
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(27-43) The dedication of the wall. Henceforth Nehemiah speaks in his
own person....
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וּ מִ בֵּית֙ הַגִּלְגָּ֔ל וּ מִ
שְּׂדֹ֥ות גֶּ
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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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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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_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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also from the house of Gilgal, Beth-gilgal, also near Bethlehem, AND
OUT OF THE FIELDS OF GEBA AND AZMAVETH, both of these towns apparently
north of Jerusalem; FOR THE SINGERS HAD BUILDED THEM VILLAGE...
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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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That they might be near at hand for the service of God, and of his
house....
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Nehemiah 12:29 house H1004 Gilgal H1537 (H8677) H1019 fields H7704
Geba H1387 Azmaveth H5820 singers H7891 ...
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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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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...
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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 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 12:28 Levitical SINGERS had settled in
VILLAGES AROUND JERUSALEM near their work. The NETOPHATHITES were from
Netophah, near Bethlehem....
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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 6:60; Deuteronomy 11:30; Ezra 2:24; Joshua 10:43;...