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THE PLAIN COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM - Perhaps the valleys of
Hinnom and Jehoshaphat, which enclose Jerusalem on three sides, are
intended.
THE VILLAGES OF NETOPHATHI - Rather, as in 1 Chronicles 9...
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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 SINGERS. Mentioned in Nehemiah 12:24.
PLAIN COUNTRY. surrounding country....
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_the plain country_ R.V. THE PLAIN. Marg. -Or, _circuit_". The word
here used, -the kikkar," is technically applied to the Jordan valley,
e.g. Genesis 13:10-12; Gen 19:17; 2 Samuel 18:23. Here, howeve...
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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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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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וַ יֵּאָ֣סְפ֔וּ בְּנֵ֖י הַ
מְשֹׁרְרִ֑ים וּ מִ
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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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And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of
the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of (h)
Netophathi;
(h) Who were a certain family and had their pos...
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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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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 sons of the singers, the guild, or company, of singers as
taken from the Levitical families, GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, BOTH
OUT OF THE PLAIN COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM, that is, from th...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Nehemiah 12:28 sons H1121 singers H7891 (H8789) together H622 (H8735)
countryside H3603 around H5439 Jerusalem H3389
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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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_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 12:27 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 2:54; 1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 6:2...