And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
and after them goeth Hoshaiah, and half of the heads of Judah,
And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
Nehemiah — The walls rebuilt in fifty-two days; the covenant renewed; the reforms enacted and then re-enacted when Nehemiah returns to find them slipping. A book about civic and spiritual reconstruction side by side.
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And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah. The other half of them, with Hoshaiah at the head of them.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
It also contained the temple which was hallowed by the manifestation of His presence, and anew set apart to His service. It was on these accounts that Jerusalem was called "the holy city," and by this public and solemn act of religious observance, after a long period of neglect and desecration, it was, as it were, restored to its rightful proprietor.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
