Nehemiah 12:1

CHAPTER XII

Account of the priests and Levites that come up with

Zerubbabel, 1-7.

Of the Levites, 8-21.

The Levites in the days of Eliashib, 22-26.

Of the dedication of the wall, and its ceremonies, 27-43.

Different officers appointed, 44-47.

NOTES ON CHAP. XII

Verse Nehemiah 12:1. Now these are the priests] Not the whole, but the chief of them, as we are informed, Nehemiah 12:7; Nehemiah 12:22-16. The Septuagint omit ver. 3, except the word Shechaniah; as also verses Nehemiah 12:4, Nehemiah 12:9, Nehemiah 12:37-16. The Arabic omits the first twenty-six verses, and Nehemiah 12:29. Mention is made of Ezra in this verse; and he is generally allowed to be that Ezra whose book the reader has already passed over, and who came to Jerusalem in the time of Cyrus, with Zerubbabel. If this were the same, he must have been at this time upward of a hundred years of age: and this case is not improbable, as an especial providence might preserve such a very useful man beyond the ordinary age of men. See what has been said on the case of Nehemiah, Nehemiah 1:1.