And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
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Gill's Exposition
But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem,.... Nehemiah, who was absent all the while these things were done by Eliashib, or otherwise they would not have been suffered:
for in the thirty second…
Barnes' Notes
The offerings of the priests - i e “the portion of the offerings assigned for their sustenance to the priests.”
It was the honour of Israel, and the greatest preservation of their holiness, that they were a peculiar people, and were so to keep themselves, and not to mingle with the nations, nor suffer any of…
Cambridge Bible
and he had prepared R.V. had prepared. Literally, -had made." It is possible that we are to understand by this expression that Eliashib had made a large chamber for Tobiah by knocking together two or…
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