Nehemiah 12:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, ”

• Nehemiah 12:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The priests - The number of the names here given, which is 22, is probably to be connected with that of the Davidic “courses,” which was 24 1 Chronicles 24:7-18 . Eight names are identical with...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that (a) went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, (a) From Babylon to Jerusalem.

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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:...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  these. Nehemiah had given the heads of families ( Nehemiah 7:6-73 ) and the numbers of the four classes of priests ( Nehemiah 7:39-42 ). Compare Ezra 2:36-39 . Here he inserts twenty-two names, th...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Now these are the priests - Not the whole, but the chief of them, a...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, These are the priests - according to 5:7, "the chief of the p...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Dedication of the Wall of Jerusalem 1. The priests] The names in Nehemiah 12:1-7 likewise appear with some variations in Nehemiah 10:3-8 see also Ezra 2:36-39 .

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XII. (1-9) The priests and Levites of the First Return. (1) Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra. — The first is the family name, represented by Jeshua. Of the two others we know nothing more than this recor...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 som...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  CONTENTS Though this Chapter contains little more than a record of the names of those who first returned from the captivity with Zerubbabel, yet it forms a most important Chapter, because it hath in...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua ,.... Who went up from the captivity in Babylon to Jerusalem with them; the one was the prince...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now these [are] the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, Ver. 1. Now these are the priests and the Levites ] Ancestors to...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now these are the priests The chief of the priests; the heads of those twenty-four courses which David appointed by divine direction, 1 Chronicles 24 . And whereas there were twenty-four, and here...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Priests and Levites That Returned. B. C. 444.       1 Now these are the priests and the...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  NEHEMIAH CHAPTER 12 The priests, Nehemiah 12:1-7 , and Levites which came up with Zerubbabel, Nehemiah 12:8,9 . The succession of high priests, Nehemiah 12:10-21 . Certain chief Levites,...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  List Of The Leading Priests And Levites Who Went Up With Zerubbabel From Exile ( Nehemiah 12:1-9 ). The list is divided into two parts, the names of chiefs of the priests, and the names of the (le...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The list of the inhabitants of the province (chap. 11) is followed by lists of the priests and Levites ( Nehemiah 12:1-26 ). These different lists are, in fact, all connected wit...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Scofield Reference Notes

  Zerubbabel Called Zorobabel, ( Matthew 1:12 ); ( Matthew 1:13 ).

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 i...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 his...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION LIST OF THE LEVITICAL AND PRIESTLY FAMILIES WHICH RETURNED FROM BABYLON WITH ZERUBBABEL ( Nehemiah 12:1-16 ). This list receives elucidation and, to some ext...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Now, these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, in the preceding century, the names being taken from ancient records: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ez...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 3:17-19 ; Ezra 2:1 ; Ezra 2:2 ; Ezra 3:8 ; Ezra 4:2 ; Ezra 5:2 ; Haggai 1:1 ; Haggai 1:12 ; Haggai 1:14 ; Haggai 2:2 ; Haggai 2:21-23 ; Matthew 1:12 ; Matthew 1:13 ; Nehemi...

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• Nehemiah 12:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Priests — The chief of the priests, the heads of those twenty four courses which David appointed by divine direction, 1 Chronicles 24:1-19 . And whereas there were twenty four, and here but twenty...

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