Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Nehemiah 12:1
The priests - The number of the names here given, which is 22, is probably to be connected with that of the Davidic "courses," which was 24 I Chronicles 24:7-18. Eight names are identical with those of the heads in David' s time. On comparing the present list with that of the families who sealed to Nehemiah' s covenant Nehemiah 10:2-8, we shall find that the first sixteen recur in that document nearly in the same order; but that the last six are absent from it. It would seem that as these six declined to seal to Nehemiah' s covenant, they were placed below the rest here in a sort of supplementary list. Note especially the "and" which connects the second part of the lists with the earlier part, both in Nehemiah 12:6 and in Nehemiah 12:19.
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