the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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尼希米记 12:1
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第一次回歸的祭司和利未人與撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和耶書亞一起上來的祭司和利未人有以下這些人:祭司有西萊雅、耶利米、以斯拉、
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We have in this chapter a record of little more than the names of a great many priests and Levites, that were eminent in their day among the returned Jews. It is good to know what our godly ancestors and predecessors were, that we may learn thereby what we should be.
the priests: Nehemiah 7:7, Ezra 2:1, Ezra 2:2
Zerubbabel: 1 Chronicles 3:17-19, Ezra 3:8, Ezra 4:2, Ezra 5:2, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 1:12, Haggai 1:14, Haggai 2:2, Haggai 2:21-23, Zechariah 4:6-10, Matthew 1:12, Matthew 1:13, Zorobabel, Salathiel
Jeshua: Nehemiah 12:10, Zechariah 3:1-9, Zechariah 6:11, Joshua
Seraiah: Nehemiah 12:12-21, Nehemiah 10:2-8, Ezra 2:2
Reciprocal: Numbers 3:18 - General Numbers 3:19 - General Nehemiah 12:7 - of Jeshua Nehemiah 12:47 - Zerubbabel Nehemiah 13:30 - appointed
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua,.... Who went up from the captivity in Babylon to Jerusalem with them; the one was the prince, the other the high priest, the same with Joshua the high priest, Zechariah 3:1, the names of the priests are given in this and the six following verses:
Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra; not Jeremiah the prophet, who cannot be thought to live so long as through the captivity; but Ezra may be Ezra the priest and scribe, who might come up with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem, and return to Babylon again, and from thence come again as he did, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, Ezra 7:1, though this by some m is not thought very probable.
m Vid. Rainold de Lib. Apocryph. praelect. 153. p. 402, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The priests - The number of the names here given, which is 22, is probably to be connected with that of the Davidic âcourses,â which was 24 1 Chronicles 24:7-18. Eight names are identical with those of the heads in Davidâs time. On comparing the present list with that of the families who sealed to Nehemiahâs covenant Nehemiah 10:2-8, we shall find that the first sixteen recur in that document nearly in the same order; but that the last six are absent from it. It would seem that as these six declined to seal to Nehemiahâs covenant, they were placed below the rest here in a sort of supplementary list. Note especially the âandâ which connects the second part of the lists with the earlier part, both in Nehemiah 12:6 and in Nehemiah 12:19.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XII
Account of the priests and Levites that come up with
Zerubbabel, 1-7.
Of the Levites, 8-21.
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, 22-26.
Of the dedication of the wall, and its ceremonies, 27-43.
Different officers appointed, 44-47.
NOTES ON CHAP. XII
Verse Nehemiah 12:1. Now these are the priests — Not the whole, but the chief of them, as we are informed, Nehemiah 12:7; Nehemiah 12:22-24. The Septuagint omit ver. 3, except the word Shechaniah; as also verses Nehemiah 12:4-6, Nehemiah 12:9, Nehemiah 12:37-41. The Arabic omits the first twenty-six verses, and Nehemiah 12:29. Mention is made of Ezra in this verse; and he is generally allowed to be that Ezra whose book the reader has already passed over, and who came to Jerusalem in the time of Cyrus, with Zerubbabel. If this were the same, he must have been at this time upward of a hundred years of age: and this case is not improbable, as an especial providence might preserve such a very useful man beyond the ordinary age of men. See what has been said on the case of Nehemiah, Nehemiah 1:1.