Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.
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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
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Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and their brethren in the days of Jeshua.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Nehemiah 12:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 24:18 the twenty-third to Delaiah, and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
- Ezra 3:2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
- Nehemiah 12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
- Zechariah 3:1 He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Next in dignity to the high Priests, and which…
Next in dignity to the high Priests, and which were of the stock of Aaron.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Of their brethren, i.e. of the priests, who were…
Of their brethren, i.e. of the priests, who were their brethren.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. The chief of the priests] They were…
Verse 7. The chief of the priests] They were twenty-four orders or courses in number, all subordinate to each other; as established by David, 1Ch 24:18. And these orders or courses were continued till the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. See Calmet.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Neh 12:7. These were the chief of the priests…
Neh 12:7. These were the chief of the priests — The heads of the courses of the priests instituted by David, which were restored after their return from captivity, though as yet they were not so many as they had been before: see Ezr 6:18. And of their brethren — That is, of the priests, who were their brethren; in the days of Jeshua — Who was the high-priest at the return from captivity.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Chief. Heads of the 24 great families, 1 Paralipomenon…
Chief. Heads of the 24 great families, 1 Paralipomenon xxiv. 18.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. chief] R.V. chiefs.
7. chief] R.V. chiefs.
in the days of Jeshua] Cf. Ezr_2:2; Ezr_3:2.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) These were the chief.—Genealogically, but not according to…
(7) These were the chief.—Genealogically, but not according to the courses, which are in none of the lists complete.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain These were the chief, etc. It may be suspected…
These were the chief, etc. It may be suspected that this is properly the heading of another list, parallel to that in vers. 12-21, which gave the names of the actual heads of the courses in Jeshua"s time.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 12:7 leaders of the priests: Cp. Ezra 2:36-39. •…
12:7 leaders of the priests: Cp. Ezra 2:36-39. • Jeshua was the high priest in Jerusalem when the people returned from captivity shortly after 538 BC (Ezra 2:2; 3:2, 8; 4:3). He was still serving in 520 BC when Haggai and Zechariah encouraged the people to finish building the Temple (Ezra 5:1; Hag 1:1; Zech 3:1).
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