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Nehemiah 7:61

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The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

KJV

And these were they which went up also from Tel–melah, Tel–haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

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This verse in Nehemiah 7

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Or perhaps one was the account of them when they set out from Babylon with Zerubbabel, the other when they came to Jerusalem. The sum totals are all just the same there and here, except of the singing-men and singing-women, which there are 200, here 245.

This site's exposition

but they could not shew

on Nehemiah 7:61-65

Some families come up unable to produce the proof the register demands: they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel, and three priestly families in the same position sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found. Nehemiah, as Tirshatha, rules them polluted and puts them from the priesthood, barred from the most holy things until a priest should stand up with Urim and Thummim to settle what the paper record could not. The genealogy is not decoration; it is the standard a man's whole office can be lost or kept by.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He appointed the porters, singers, and Levites, in their places to their work. This is meant of their work in general, which was to attend the temple service; it had been neglected in some degree, but now was revived. God's worship is the defence of a place, and his ministers, when they mind their duty, are watchmen on the walls.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאֵ֗לֶּהand these

    veelehH428 →746 times

  • הָֽעוֹלִים֙[are] the [ones who] came up

    haolimH5927 →890 times

  • מִתֵּ֥לfrom Tel

    mitelH8528 →

  • מֶ֙לַח֙Melah

    melachH8528 →

  • תֵּ֣לTel

    telH8521 →

  • חַרְשָׁ֔אHarsha

    charsha'H8521 →

  • כְּר֥וּבKerub

    keruvH3743 →

  • אַדּ֖וֹןAddon

    ʾadonH114 →

  • וְאִמֵּ֑רand Immer

    veimerH564 →10 times

  • וְלֹ֣אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יָכְל֗וּthey were able

    yakheluH3201 →194 times

  • לְהַגִּ֤ידto declare

    lehagidH5046 →370 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבוֹתָם֙ancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • וְזַרְעָ֔םand offspring their

    vezaramH2233 →229 times

  • אִ֥םif

    ʾimH518 →1069 times

  • מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל[were] from Israel

    miyisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • הֵֽם׃they

    hemH1992 →553 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Nehemiah

Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Nehemiah Views the Ruins of Jerusalem's Walls, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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