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**these.** Nehemiah had given the heads of families ([Nehemiah 7:6-73](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/6-73) ) and the numbers of the four classes of priests ([Nehemiah 7:39-42](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/39-42) ). Compare [Ezra 2:36-39](../../../kjv/ezra/2/36-39) . Here he inserts twenty-two names, the heads of priests' classes, or courses formed out of these four, "in the days of Jeshua" ([Nehemiah 12:7](../../../kjv/nehemiah/12/7) ). See [Ezra 6:18](../../../kjv/ezra/6/18) .
**Ezra.** Not *th* e Ezra of the book of Ezra.

**chief** = heads.

**the Levites.** Compare [Ezra 2:40](../../../kjv/ezra/2/40) with Ezr 7:43 , above.

**over against** = corresponding to those in [Nehemiah 12:8](../../../kjv/nehemiah/12/8) .
**in the watches:** i.e. the courses, or waitings.

**Shebamah.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Shechaniah".

**Helkai.** Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "Hilkai".

**Darius** = Darius Hystaspis. See App-57 and App-58 .

**the book of the chronicles:** i.e. the public records or registers.

**the man of God.** See App-49 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* (with Art.) = the [true]God. App-4 .

**ward** = charge.
**thresholds** = gatherings or storehouses.

**governor** = Pasha. Chaldee. *pechah.*

**with thanksgivings.** [Psalms 14](../../../kjv/psalms/14) 7 would have been a suitable psalm for the occasion, and [Psalms 122](../../../kjv/psalms/122) .

**the singers.** Mentioned in [Nehemiah 12:24](../../../kjv/nehemiah/12/24) .
**plain country** = surrounding country.

**the house of Gilgal.** Hebrew Beth-Gilgal

**companies of them that gave thanks.** Heb, celebrations; "celebrations", or thanksgivings, put for the choirs who rendered them, by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), App-6 .

**Hoshaiah.** Compare [Jeremiah 42:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/42/1) ; [Jeremiah 43:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/43/2) .

**Ezra.** Not Ezra the scribe,

**Of David:** i.e. dating from, or invented by him.

**the stairs.** See [Nehemiah 3:15](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/15) .

**in** = at.

**offered.** Hebrew. *zabach.* App-43 .
**children** = offspring.

**some** = men. Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 .
**offerings** = heave offerings.
**into them** = by them: i.e. these officers; not into the chambers, for "chambers" is fem, and "them" is masculine
**of the law.** So in Cod. Hillel; but some codices, with one early printed edition, read "portions for thanksgiving".

**ward** = charge.
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

**all Israel.** Used of Judah, Benjamin, and those who returned with them. See note on [1 Kings 12:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/17) .
**children** = sons.

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