Nehemiah 11:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Nehemiah 11:4

2 And the people blessed all the men who ^awillingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.

3 ^aThese are the heads of the province who dwelt in Jerusalem. (But in the cities of Judah everyone dwelt in his own possession in their cities—Israelites, priests, Levites, ^bNethinim, and ^cdescendants of Solomon’s servants.)

4 Also ^ain Jerusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. The children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of ^bPerez;

5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-Hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.

6 All the sons of Perez who dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight valiant men.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Nehemiah 11:4

at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah—The discrepancy that is apparent between this [Neh. 11:4-36] and the list formerly given in I Chronicles 9:1-9, arose not only from the Jewish and Oriental practice of changing or modifying the names of persons from a change of circumstances, but from the alterations that must have been produced in the course of time. The catalogue in Chronicles contains those who came with the first detachment of returned exiles, while the list in this passage probably included also those who returned with Ezra and Nehemiah; or it was most probably made out afterwards, when several had died, or some, who had been inserted as going on the journey, remained, and others came in their stead.

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