Nehemiah 11:18
All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.
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Gill's Exposition
For it was the king's commandment concerning them,.... Either of King David as some, see Neh 12:24 or rather of the king of Persia:
that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every…
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…
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