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

“ And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; ”

• Nehemiah 12:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of (e) Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; (e) That is, next to Seraiah or rather of the order, who was called after the name...

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

  And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

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

  And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; In the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers - i:e., as there h...

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

  (12-26) List of representatives of Zerubbabel’s priests in the days of Joiakim; to which is added an account of the Levites in his day. Between these there is an interpolation ( Nehemiah 12:22-23 ).

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

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

  Ver. 12-21. And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers ,.... This was the son and successor of Jeshua, or Joshua, the first high priest of the second temple; the principal men...

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

  In the days of Joiakim were priests As the writer had mentioned those who were the chief of the priests in the days of Jeshua, so now he mentions the sons of every one of them who officiated in the...

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

  As their fathers were priests in the days of Joshua, so in the days of Joiakim, the son of Joshua, the sons of those persons executed the priesthood in their fathers steads, some of their fathers pro...

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

  Details Concerning The Priests And Levites Who Returned With Zerubbabel, And Those Who Subsequently Developed ( Nehemiah 12:1-26 ). The importance of the genuinely appointed Priests and Levites to...

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

  Priests and Levites who came up with Zerubbabel

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• Nehemiah 12:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 15:12 ; 1 Chronicles 24:6-31 ; 1 Chronicles 9:33 ; 1 Chronicles 9:34 ; Nehemiah 12:1 ; Nehemiah 12:22

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• Nehemiah 12:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Priests — As their fathers were priests in the days of Joshua, so in the days of Joiakim the son of Joshua, the sons of those persons executed the priesthood in their father's steads, some of their...

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