Nehemiah 12:9
in Nehemiah 12Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethren, were over against them according to their offices.
KJV
Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
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This verse in Nehemiah 12
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAlso Bakbukiah and Unni,.... Two other Levites; the first is mentioned in Neh 11:17, their brethren, were over against them in the watches; the Levites were divided into twenty four wards, and these were placed one against another, 1Ch 23:6.
This site's exposition
went up with Zerubbabel
on Nehemiah 12:1-9
The register opens with the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel and Jeshua, the return generation named by father's house the same way Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 name the laity. Twenty-two priestly names stand against the twenty-four courses David ordered in 1 Chronicles 24, a gap the commentators trace to two courses that had died out in Babylon and never returned. Mattaniah is named over the thanksgiving and Bakbukiah and Unni keep the watches opposite their brethren, the singing and guarding already running in the alternating courses David set.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
their brethren, were over against them in the watches--that is, according to some, their stations--the places where they stood when officiating--"ward over against ward" (Ne 12:24); or, according to others, in alternate watches, in course of rotation.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Now Jeshua begot Joiakim, etc. All those [listed] in this verse were high priests.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 2 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֨ה | uvakbukyah | and Bakbukiah | H1229 → | 3 times |
| וְעֻנִּ֧י | veunov | and Unni | H6042 → | |
| אֲחֵיהֶ֛ם | ʾacheihem | brothers their | H251 → | 630 times |
| לְנֶגְדָּ֖ם | lenegdam | [were] to before them | H5048 → | 151 times |
| לְמִשְׁמָרֽוֹת׃ | lemishmarot | to duties | H4931 → | 78 times |
וּבַקְבֻּֽקְיָ֨הand Bakbukiah
uvakbukyahH1229 →3 times
וְעֻנִּ֧יand Unni
veunovH6042 →
אֲחֵיהֶ֛םbrothers their
ʾacheihemH251 →630 times
לְנֶגְדָּ֖ם[were] to before them
lenegdamH5048 →151 times
לְמִשְׁמָרֽוֹת׃to duties
lemishmarotH4931 →78 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nehemiah 12:24The leaders of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, along with their associates, who stood across from them to give praise and thanksgiving as one section alternated with the other,…
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 25:1–26
Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list…
- Nehemiah 8:7
The Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah—instructed the people in the Law as they stood in their places.
- Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
- 1 Kings 17:24
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”
- Nehemiah 11:17
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son…
- 1 Chronicles 25:1–26
About Nehemiah
This page draws on Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.