Nehemiah 12:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholdsg of the gates. ”

• Nehemiah 12:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In 1Ch 9:17 , 1 Chronicles 9:24 , 1 Chronicles 9:26 , four families of porters only are mentioned; six are implied here, in Nehemiah 7:45 , and in Ezra 2:42 . From 1 Chronicles 26:14-19 it...

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - 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 12:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  ward . charge. thresholds . gatherings or storehouses.

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates. The thresholds of the gates - Some understand this of a sort of porticoes...

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters ,.... At the gates of the temple, see 1 Chronicles 9:15 , keeping the ward, at the thresholds of the gates ; of the templ...

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Written in the book of the Chronicles That is, in the public annals or registers, in which the genealogies of the several families were recorded by the Jews with great exactness, as all persons agr...

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To wit, of the temple, their watching-place being close by the thresholds of the gates, as it now is.

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - 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 12:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Priests and Levites who came up with Zerubbabel

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• Nehemiah 12:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 23:32 ; 1 Chronicles 26:12 ; 1 Chronicles 9:14-17 ; Isaiah 21:8 ; Nehemiah 11:17-19 ; Nehemiah 12:8 ; Nehemiah 12:9

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