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The six generations of high priests covered a little more than two
centuries (538-333 B.C.), or a little under thirty-five years to a
generation. Jaddua was the high priest who (according to Josephus)...
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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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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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The lists of the high-priests in 1 Chronicles 6:3-15 concluded with
Jehozadak, who -went into captivity when the Lord carried away Judah
and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar." Jehozadak's son w...
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JADDUA— This was the person who went in his pontifical habit to meet
Alexander the Great, as he was advancing towards Jerusalem, after the
conquest of Tyre and Gaza. See the note on Exodus 28:2....
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2. The high priests descended from Jeshua are traced, possibly to the
end of Nehemiah's life.
TEXT, NEHEMIAH 12:10-11
10
And Jeshua became the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim became the father
of El...
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_AND JOIADA BEGAT JONATHAN, AND JONATHAN BEGAT JADDUA._
Jaddua. It is an opinion entertained by many commentators that this
person was the high priest whose dignified appearance, solemn manner,
and s...
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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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Nehemiah then recorded the family of the chief priest. It was
important for *Jews to know about their *ancestors. But it was
especially important for the priests to know about their *ancestors.
They c...
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JONATHAN. — Should be Johanan (Nehemiah 12:22); and _“_Jaddua”
is most probably the high priest who confronted Alexander the Great....
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Pedigree of certain high priests, with supplement from a later hand.
The six generations stretch over 200 years — from B.C. 536 to B.C.
332....
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וְ יֹויָדָע֙ הֹולִ֣יד אֶת ־יֹונָתָ֔ן
וְ יֹונָ
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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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Jonathan, is called Johanan by St. Jerome, (in Daniel) Josephus, &c.
--- Jeddoa. The Jaddus, who went to meet Alexander, in his pontifical
attire, and was graciously received by him; as the monarch re...
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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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And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
Ver. 11. _And Jonathan begat Jaddua_] Who was high priest in Alexander
the Great's time; and meeting him, in his formalities, prevailed with
him...
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_And Jeshua begat Joiakim_ In these two verses is an account of the
succession of the high-priests, from the return of the captivity till
the time when they began to bear the greatest sway in the Jewi...
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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 Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua....
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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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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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Generally supposed to be the same man who was high priest in the days
of Alexander the Great, as Josephus mentions; whence a great
difficulty ariseth, how Nehemiah could mention this man, who seems no...
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THE GENEALOGY OF JESHUA THE HIGH PRIEST WHO WENT UP WITH ZERUBBABEL
(NEHEMIAH 12:10).
Central to the success of the new Israel, and the establishment of the
holy city as holy, was the succession of Hi...
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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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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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Nehemiah 12:11...