No text from Poole on this verse.
“Judah and Benjamin” are the lay people of those two tribes.
Dedication of the Walls of Jerusalem. We should naturally expect this section to come after Nehemiah 6:15 , where the completion of the walls is r...
Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophath...
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 s...
(27-43) The dedication of the wall. Henceforth Nehemiah speaks in his own person.
Judah and Benjamin. — A singular collocation: the laity of Judah and Benjamin, with priests before and after.
BEGINNINGS Nehemiah 12:27-47 A CURIOUS feature of the history of the restoration of Israel already met with several times is postponement. Thus...
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...
Nehemiah had very largely described, in the former part of his book, the labours in building the wall; and therefore he will not pass over the dedica...
Judah and Benjamin ,.... Not the tribes, but the names of the two princes, as Jarchi: and Shemaiah and Jeremiah ; who were two others.
Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, Ver. 34. Judah, and Benjamin ] i.e. Men so called.
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 i...
The Dedication of the Wall. B. C. 444. ...
Purifications And Celebrations At The Dedication Of The Wall ( Nehemiah 12:27-43 ). Having established the newly walled Jerusalem as ‘the holy cit...
The Composition Of The First Company Who Went Towards The Dung Gate, The Fountain Gate And The Stairs Of David ( Nehemiah 12:31-37 ). It is almost...
Those Taking Part In The Ceremony Are Divided Into Two Great Companies Who Proceed To Circumnavigate The Wall, One Company Going One Way And The Oth...
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 ). The...
Nehemiah 12:47 . They sanctified unto the levites, and the levites sanctified unto the children of Aaron. They dedicated and delivered not only th...
And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem. The dedication of the wall In this dedication-- I. It was designed to offer thanks to God fo...
PART IV . DEDICATION OF THE WALL OF JERUSALEM UNDER NEHEMIAH AND EZRA , WITH NEHEMIAH 'S ARRANGEMENT OF THE TEMPLE...
The Walls Dedicated
34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,