Nehemiah 11:10

And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight,.... The brethren of Adaiah and Amashai, who were able men to do the work of their office as priests, and men of courage to fight…

See the margin reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register which Nehemiah caused to be made of his census. The census itself seems to have been confined to the…

Jerusalem is called here the holy city (Neh 11:1), because there the temple was, and that was the place God had chosen to put his name there; upon this account, one would think, the holy seed should…

Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin The parallel passage in 1Ch 9:10 has -Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin." As these three are the names of well-known priestly houses (cf. 1Ch 24:7, Jehoiarib the first,…