For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.
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Barnes' Notes
The goodwill of Artaxerxes toward the ministers employed in the temple service, had been previously shown by his exempting them from taxation of every kind Ezr 7:24. Now, it would seem, he had gone…
Adam Clarke
It was the king's commandment - By the king some understand David, and others Artaxerxes. It is most probable that it was the latter; who wished that a provision should be made for these, a part of…
Having given an account of the principal persons that dwelt in Jerusalem (a larger account of whom he had before, Ch1 9:2, etc.), Nehemiah, in these verses, gives us some account of the other cities,…
Cambridge Bible
Forit was] R.V. For there was.
the king's commandment R.V. a commandment from the king.
That this was the Persian king Artaxerxes is shown by the reference to -the king" in Neh 11:24, and by the…
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