{"id":12569,"date":"2022-09-24T04:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-108\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T04:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T09:35:37","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 10:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these [were] the priests. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 8<\/strong>. <em> these<\/em> were <em> the priests<\/em> ] The names of Seraiah, Jeremiah, Amariah are found in both lists ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:1-7<\/span> and ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:12-22<\/span>. Shebaniah is found in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:14<\/span> but appears as Shechaniah in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:3<\/span>. Malluch is found in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:2<\/span>, but appears as Malluchi (Melicu) in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:14<\/span>: Harim is found in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:15<\/span> but appears probably as Rehum in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:3<\/span>: Meremoth is found in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:3<\/span>, but appears as Meraioth in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:15<\/span>: Ginnetho is found in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:16<\/span>, but appears as Ginnethoi in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:4<\/span>: Mijamin is found in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:5<\/span> but appears as Miniamin in ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:17<\/span>. Bilgai is clearly the same as Bilgah ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:5<\/span> and ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:18<\/span>. Hattush in found in ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:2<\/span> but has dropped out of ( <em> b<\/em>). Azariah has sometimes been identified with the Ezra of ( <em> a<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:1<\/span> and ( <em> b<\/em>) <span class='bible'>Neh 12:13<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> It thus appears that, out of the 21 &lsquo;priests&rsquo; or &lsquo;priestly houses&rsquo; mentioned here, nine (i.e. Pashur, Malchijah, Obadiah, Daniel, Baruch, Meshullam, Abijah, Maaziah, Shemaiah) do not occur in the two lists of chap. 12.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on Ne 10:1]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(8) <strong>These were the priests.<\/strong>That is, the names of the priestly families. (Comp. <span class='bible'>Neh. 12:1-6<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Bilgai: Neh 12:5, Bilgah <\/p>\n<p>Shemaiah: Neh 3:29, Neh 12:6, Neh 12:18, Neh 12:42, Ezr 10:21<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Neh 10:8. These were the priests  That is, the chief of them; for there are but twenty-one of them named here.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these [were] {a} the priests.<\/p>\n<p>(a) Who subscribed to keep the promise.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these [were] the priests. 8. these were the priests ] The names of Seraiah, Jeremiah, Amariah are found in both lists ( a) Neh 12:1-7 and ( b) Neh 12:12-22. Shebaniah is found in ( b) Neh 12:14 but appears as Shechaniah in ( a) Neh 12:3. Malluch is found in ( &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-nehemiah-108\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Nehemiah 10:8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}