Nehemiah 11:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God. ”

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  PART V (Nehemiah 11-13). The Population of Jerusalem and Judah. The Dedication of the Walls Internal Organisation. Nehemiah 11:1-36 . The Population of Jerusalem and Judah. This section consis...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  God. Hebrew. Elohim. (with Art.). the [true] God. App-4.

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God. And Shabbethai - This verse, with Nehemiah 11:20 , Nehemiah 11:21 , Nehemi...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God. The oversight of the outward business of the house of God - i:e., those...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Measures to Supplement the Population of Jerusalem 1. This v. resumes the subject of the paucity of population in Jerusalem: see Nehemiah 7:4 . The rulers were already residing in the capital, an...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (4-19) The heads in Jerusalem: as compared with 1 Chronicles 9 , by no means complete. Judah and Benjamin are represented, with priests and Levites and porters.

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE HOLY CITY Nehemiah 11:1-18 WE have seen that though the two passages that deal with the sparsity of the population of Jerusalem are separated in our Bibles by the insertion of the section o...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now begin the third and final division of the Book, in which is set forth the arrangements made for settlement of the cities. It is the last piece of history which the Old Testament contains. Some...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt everyone in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites ,.... Along with Shemaiah; these had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God : who had the care of the repairs of the temp...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The outward business of the house of God For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as the gathering in of the voluntary c...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM AND OTHER CITIES (vv. 1-25) Jerusalem being God's center, the leaders of the people lived there, but the people evidently preferred other places, so that the proposa...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Re-peopling of Jerusalem. B. C. 444.       1 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusal...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  i.e. For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as for the gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessary p...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Establishment Of Jerusalem As The Holy City, Populated By True Israelites; Its Worship Conducted By Those Specifically and Provably Appointed By God; Accepted from God With Due Gladness And Prai...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “This chapter is intimately connected with Nehemiah 7:4 , showing Nehemiah’s plan of increasing the population of the city. The genealogies and then the confession and covenant c...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Nehemiah 11:1 . To bring one in ten to dwell in Jerusalem. The inhabitants were not yet sufficiently numerous for the public works and services, and for the defence of the city. Hence it became ne...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem. The holy city replenished Jerusalem is called here the holy city, because there the temple was, and that was the place God had chosen to put His...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  PART III . ENLARGEMENT OF THE POPULATION OF JERUSALEM , WITH THE NUMBER OF THE ADULT MALES , AND THE NAMES OF THE CHIEFS . VARIOUS LISTS OF PRIESTS A...

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  List of the Leading Men

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 26:20 ; Acts 6:2 ; Acts 6:3 ; Nehemiah 8:7

  Read the comments

• Nehemiah 11:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Outward — For those things belonging to the temple and its service, which were to be done without it, or abroad in the country, as the gathering in of the voluntary contributions, or other necessar...

  Read the comments