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5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,  
6 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,
7 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the heads of the priests and their brethren in the days of aJeshua.  
8 Moreover the Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah awho led the thanksgiving psalms, he and his brethren.  
9 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, stood across from them in their duties.
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Adam Clarke
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Nehemiah 12:7

The chief of the priests - They were twenty-four orders or courses in number, all subordinate to each other; as established by David, I Chronicles 24:18. And these orders or courses were continued till the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. See Calmet.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Nehemiah 12:7:

Nehemiah 12:1
Matthew 2:4

 

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