Also from the house of Gilgal , and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
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Gill's Exposition
And the priests and the Levites purified themselves,.... By washing their bodies and their clothes, perhaps by sprinkling the water of purification on them, see Num 8:6.
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Nehemiah 12:31
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Barnes' Notes
The house of Gilgal - Or, “Beth-Gilgal” - probably the Gilgal north of Jerusalem (now “Jiljilia).
Adam Clarke
From the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth - Or, from Beth-Gilgal; a village erected in the place where the Israelites encamped after they had, under the direction of Joshua,…
We have read of the building of the wall of Jerusalem with a great deal of fear and trembling; we have here an account of the dedicating of it with a great deal of joy and triumph. Those that sow in…
Cambridge Bible
from the house of Gilgal R.V. from Beth-gilgal. Possibly to be identified with the Gilgal of 2Ki 2:1; 2Ki 4:38, and if so it was about 14 miles N. of Jerusalem.
Geba Cf. Neh 11:31.
Azmaveth See note…
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