Nehemiah 12:40
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
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Gill's Exposition
Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced,.... Or many sacrifices, as Ben Melech interprets it; and these perhaps of the larger sort of cattle, oxen; and which, at least many of them,…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
rulers R.V. marg. -Or, deputies". In Neh 12:12, -the princes."
and I, and the half of the rulers with me We have here rather fuller details of Nehemiah's company to correspond with the description of…
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