1Ch 9:10-34, Neh 11:10-20 | TSK | STEP

Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king's.

1Ki 10:5; 2Ki 11:19; Eze 44:2,3; 46:1,2; Ac 3:11

they.

26:12-19

Ebiasaph.

6:22,23

Korah.

Nu 26:9-11; Ps 42:1; 44:1; 49:1; *titles

gates. Heb. thresholds.

Ps 84:10; *marg:

over the host.

2Ki 11:9,15; 2Ch 23:4-10

keepers of the entry.

26:7,8,13-19

Phinehas.

Nu 3:32; 4:16,28,33; 31:6

the Lord.

Nu 25:11-13; 1Sa 16:18; Ac 7:9,10

Zechariah.

26:14

in their.

16,25; Ne 11:25-30,36; 12:28,29,44

David.

23:1-32; 25:1-26:32; 28:13,21

Samuel.

1Sa 9:9

did ordain. Heb. founded. set office. or, trust.

26,31

the oversight.

23:32; 2Ch 23:19; Ne 12:45; Eze 44:10,11,14

four.

26:14-18

seven.

2Ki 11:5,7; 2Ch 23:8

set office. or, trust. chambers. or, storehouses.treasuries.

26:20-27; 2Ch 31:5-12; Ne 10:38,39; 13:5

the charge.

23:32; Ro 12:7

the opening.

1Sa 3:15; Mal 1:10

the charge.

26:22-26; Nu 23:25-27; Ezr 8:25-30; Ne 12:44; 13:4,5

bring them in and out. Heb. bring them in by tale, and carrythem out.

instruments. or, vessels. the oil.

Ex 27:20

the frankincense.

Ex 30:23-38

of the sons.

Ex 30:25,33,35-38; 37:29

Shallum.

17,19

set office. or, trust.

22,26

in the pans. or, on flat plates, or slices.

Le 2:5,7; 6:21

the sons.

6:33-48

shewbread. Heb. bread of ordering. to.

Ex 25:30; Le 24:5-8

the singers.

6:31-33; 15:16-22; 16:4-6; 25:1-31; Ezr 7:24

were free.

Ne 11:17,22,23

they, etc. Heb. upon them. employed.A number of Levites were employed by rotation in singing the praises of Jehovah; and they seem to have continued the service day and night: see the References.

Ps 134:1,2; 135:1-3

chief fathers.

13; Ne 11:1-15

Jerusalem.We have already seen the situation and extent of this ancient city, (Note on 8:28;) but the Jerusalem of sacred history is no more. After having been successively destroyed by the Babylonians and Romans, and taken by the Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks, in the possession of the latter of whom it still continues, not a vestige remains of the capital of David and Solomon, not a monument of Jewish times is standing. The very course of the walls is changed, and the boundaries of the ancient city are become doubtful. The monks pretend to shew the sites of the sacred places; but they have not the slightest pretensions to even a probable identity with the real places. The Jerusalem that now is, however, called by the Arabs {El Kouds,} or "the holy city," is still a respectable, good-looking town, of an irregular shape: it is surrounded by high embattled walls, enclosing an area not exceeding two miles and a half, and occupying two small hills, having the valley of Jehoshaphat on the east, the valley of Siloam and Gehinnom on the south, and the valley of Rephaim on the west; and containing a population variously estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000 souls.

Nehemiah 11:10-20

Jedaiah.One of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. omits, [bên ,] {ben,} "son of," and reads "Jedaiah, Joiarib, Jachin:" which is nearly that of the parallel place. Joiarib, [Yôwyârîyb ,] is merely a contracted form of [Yehôwyârîyb ,] Jehoiarib, by the elision of [Hê',] {hay.}

7:39; 12:19; 1Ch 9:10

Jehoiarib.

Ezr 2:36; 8:16

Joiarib.

12:6

Seraiah.Seraiah probably had also the name of Azariah.

1Ch 6:7-14; 9:11

Azariah.

Ezr 7:1-5

the ruler.He had the command over all secular matters; as the high priest had over all those which were spiritual.

Nu 3:32; 1Ch 9:1; 2Ch 19:11; 31:13; Ac 5:24

Adaiah.

1Ch 9:12,13

of one of the great men. or, of Haggedolim.

Shemaiah.

1Ch 9:14,19

Shabbethai.

8:7

had the oversight of. Heb. were over.

1Ch 26:20

outward.Calmet supposes they provided the victuals for the priests, the victims for the sacrifices, the sacerdotal vestments, the sacred vessels, and other necessaries for the service of the temple.

Ac 6:2,3

Zabdi.In the parallel passage, instead of Zichri, many manuscripts have Zabdi, as here: he is also called Zaccur.

10:12; 1Ch 9:15

Zichri. to begin.

12:8,31; 1Ch 16:4,41; 25:1-6

thanksgiving.

Php 4:6; 1Th 5:17,18

Bakbukiah.

12:9,25

the holy.

1; 1Ki 11:13; Da 9:24; Mt 24:15; 27:53; Re 11:2; 21:2

Akkub.

7:45; 12:25; 1Ch 9:17-22

that kept.

Ps 84:10

the gates. Heb. at the gates.