“ The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight. ”
Nehemiah 7:5-73 a. Enumeration of the Returned Exiles. This section= Ezra 2:1-70 ; cf. the Greek Ezra 5:7-17 . As this list is approximately the same as that of the exiles who returned under...
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two. No JFB commentary on these verses.
A List of those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel 2. Hanani] after carrying information to Nehemiah respecting the condition of Jerusalem ( Nehemiah 1:2 ), he must have returned with him...
(5-73) The genealogical reckoning of the people, as the first step towards increasing the population of the metropolis, is determined on, not without express Divine suggestion; the allusion to this i...
At last the wall was completed by setting up the doors, and placing in order porters, singers, and Levites. In the first few verses of this chapter we have an account of the arrangements for the safe...
(5) В¶ And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which ca...
Nehemiah 7:6 .
APPOINTMENTS MADE IN THE CITY (vv. 1-3) The wall of separation having been built and the doors hung in the gates, then appointments consistent with this separation were made (v. 1). Gatekeepers...
The Register of the Captives. B. C. 445. 5 And my God put into mine heart to gather to...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Enrolling Of The Singers/Musicians ( Nehemiah 7:44 ). The singers were a special order of Levites (seen as such in Nehemiah 11:15-17 ; Ezra 3:10-11 ; but seemingly not designated as Levites...
EXPLANATORY NOTES.] “The second section of this book (chaps. 7–12:43) furnishes a description of the further efforts of Nehemiah to increase and insure the prosperity of the community in Judah and Je...
Nehemiah 7:2 . I gave my brother Hanani, probably his eldest brother, who had come to Shushan to represent the injuries sustained by the Jews, from the governor in Samaria: Nehemiah 1:2 . And Ha...
EXPOSITION THE REGISTER OF THOSE WHO RETURNED UNDER ZERUBBABEL , WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR SLAVES , BEASTS , AND OBLATIONS ( Nehemiah 7:6-16 ). It is no doubt a cur...
A List of Returned Exiles
1 Chronicles 25:2 ; Ezra 2:41