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**Hanani.** He must have returned to Jerusalem with Nehemiah. Compare [Nehemiah 1:2](../../../kjv/nehemiah/1/2) .
**and** = even. Compare [Nehemiah 1:2](../../../kjv/nehemiah/1/2) .
**palace** = stronghold. Compare [Nehemiah 2:8](../../../kjv/nehemiah/2/8) . North of Temple area.
**was a faithful man** = was as [it were]truth's own man, man.
**feared** = revered.
**God.** Hebrew. *'eth* - *ha* 'elohim = the [true, or triune] God.

**stand by:** as on guard.
**shut.** Hebrew. *guph* , to close, as a gate.
**one.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 .
**house** = dwelling. See note on [Nehemiah 7:4](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/4) .

**large and great** = wide, or open, and large.
**few therein.** This could not have been said if Zerubbabel had already returned with nearly 50,000 people ([Ezra 2:64-67](../../../kjv/ezra/2/64-67) ).
**the houses were not builded** = no sign of houses being built. This statement refers to the permanent stable habitations of the city proper which Haggai speaks of as being in existence forty-four years later ([Haggai 1:4](../../../kjv/haggai/1/4) , [Haggai 1:9](../../../kjv/haggai/1/9) ). The word *bayith,* house, means a dwelling, and in [Nehemiah 2:3](../../../kjv/nehemiah/2/3) with [Nehemiah 3:31](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/31) is rendered "place", which clearly indicates its meaning in these passages. Among the ruined houses left by Nebuchadnezzar many might easily have been made habitable sufficiently to fulfill the conditions of [Nehemiah 8:16](../../../kjv/nehemiah/8/16) .
This portion corresponds with [Ezra 1:5](../../../kjv/ezra/1/5) [Ezra 2:70](../../../kjv/ezra/2/70) . Therefore all that precedes ([Nehemiah 1:1](../../../kjv/nehemiah/1/1) -- [Nehemiah 7:4](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/4) ) must come, chronologically, before [Ezra 1:5](../../../kjv/ezra/1/5) , Nehemiah's record here interrupted, and resumed after some twelve years. See [Nehemiah 5:14](../../../kjv/nehemiah/5/14) . This portion was written after the Temple had been rebuilt (Compare [Nehemiah 8:5](../../../kjv/nehemiah/8/5) , [Nehemiah 8:16](../../../kjv/nehemiah/8/16) ), when Darius Hystaspis was reigning (see App-57 , App-58 , App-50 .)

**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**found.** This account probably written long after this date (426): say, between 404 and 400 B.C. Hebrew = I find that the list of names was, &c.
**I found a register** of the genealogy of them which came up at the first. It must be borne in mind that Nehemiah wrote long after this date (426 B.C.); probably between 403 and 400 B.C. It is quite natural therefore that he should write of finding such a book as this. When he says, "I found a book", &c, it does not mean that Nehemiah found or discovered the register *at that time;* but, writing long after, he says, "I find that the list of names was, so and so", &c,
**a register** , which is here inserted. It consists of Judah and Benjamin. Levi was not here as a distinct community (compare [Deuteronomy 10:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/8) , [Deuteronomy 10:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/10/9) ).

**children** = sons.

**came with Zerubbabel.** That was in 426 B.C. The covenant and separation did not take place till 404 B.C. twenty-two years later ([Nehemiah 10](../../../kjv/nehemiah/10) , where Zerubbabel is not mentioned, probably because then dead).
**the People of Israel.** Another proof that Israel is not exclusively used of the ten tribes. See verses: [Nehemiah 7:61](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/61) , [Nehemiah 7:73](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/73) , [Nehemiah 7:47](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/47) ; and note on [1 Kings 12:17](../../../kjv/1-kings/12/17) . The names are repeated from [Ezra 2](../../../kjv/ezra/2) . See note on [Nehemiah 7:66](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7/66) .

**the other.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, read *'echad =* a certain, instead of *'acher =* another, or the other (rival).

**the other.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "one", or "a certain", as above.

**The Nethinims.** Descendants of the Gibeonites and other foreigners. Only 612 returned from Babylon: 392 with Zerubbabel ([Ezra 2:58](../../../kjv/ezra/2/58) . Ezr 7:60 ), and 220 with Ezra ([Ezra 8:20](../../../kjv/ezra/8/20) . Ezr 11:21 ).

**Mehida.** Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "Mehira" (with r, *Resh)* instead of Mehida (with d, *Daleth).*

**among those, &c.** = wherein they were registered. Compare [Ezra 2:62](../../../kjv/ezra/2/62) .
**it was.** Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "they were".
**as polluted, put.** See note on [Ezra 2:62](../../../kjv/ezra/2/62) .

**Urim and Thummim** = the Urim and the Thummim. See notes on [Exodus 28:30](../../../kjv/exodus/28/30) . [Numbers 26:55](../../../kjv/numbers/26/55) .

**congregation** = assembly, convocation, or muster. Compare [Ezra 2:64](../../../kjv/ezra/2/64) .
**forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore.** This number (42,360) agrees with [Ezra 2:64](../../../kjv/ezra/2/64) . Though the two lists are not identical, there is no discrepancy, but the difference shows the independence of the two accounts: Numbered in [Nehemiah 7](../../../kjv/nehemiah/7) 42,360
Named in Neh. 31,089
Named in Ezra, not in Neh. 494 31,583
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Difference between names and numbers: 10,777

**Their horses . . . mules.** This verse is found in some codices, with six early printed editions.

**some** = a portion.
**chiefs** = heads.
**gave.** Nehemiah mentions what he, the chiefs, and the rest of the people gave. Ezra ( Neh 2:68 , Neh 2:69 ) mentions what only *one* portion gave. Hence the numbers are necessarily different.

**pound.** Hebrew. *maneh.* App-51 .

**the Nethinims.** See note on [Ezra 2:43](../../../kjv/ezra/2/43) .
**the seventh month.** This was in 426 B. C, not in 404 B. C, which is referred to in [Nehemiah 9:1-3](../../../kjv/nehemiah/9/1-3) and [Ezra 9:1-4](../../../kjv/ezra/9/1-4) . See App-58 .

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