Nehemiah 12:10
in Nehemiah 12Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
KJV
And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
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This verse in Nehemiah 12
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The six generations of high priests covered a little more than two centuries (538-333 B.C.), or a little under thirty-five years to a generation. Jaddua was the high priest who (according to Josephus) had an interview with Alexander shortly after the battle of Issus.
This site's exposition
Jeshua was the father of Joiakim
on Nehemiah 12:10-11
A single priestly line runs six generations from Jeshua to Jaddua. With no king in Judah, the book measures its years by these high priests. Josephus records that Jaddua was the priest who met Alexander the Great, so the register's last name reaches past Nehemiah's own generation.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Now Joshua begot Joakim, etc. Finally, Jeddua, who is placed last among these, Josephus writes (Antiquities II, 8) was the high priest in the times of Alexander the Great, and humbly and honorably received by him when he met him with his brothers. Indeed, he …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Jeshua - Here follows a catalogue of the Jewish high-priests; which was the more necessary, because their times were now to be measured, not by the years of their kings as formerly, but by their high-priests.
And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begot Joiada, and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begot Jaddua.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Jeshua begat Joiakim, &c.--This enumeration was of great importance, not only as establishing their individual purity of descent, but because the chronology of the Jews was henceforth to be reckoned, not as formerly by the reigns of their kings, but by the successions of their high priests.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
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
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיֵשׁ֖וּעַ | veyeshua' | and Jeshua | H3442 → | 29 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יֽוֹיָקִ֑ים | yoyakim | Joiakim | H3113 → | 4 times |
| וְיֽוֹיָקִים֙ | veyoyakim | and Joiakim | H3113 → | 4 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יב | ʾelyashiv | Eliashib | H475 → | 17 times |
| וְאֶלְיָשִׁ֖יב | veelyashiv | and Eliashib | H475 → | 17 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יוֹיָדָֽע׃ | yoyada' | Joiada | H3111 → | 5 times |
וְיֵשׁ֖וּעַand Jeshua
veyeshua'H3442 →29 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יֽוֹיָקִ֑יםJoiakim
yoyakimH3113 →4 times
וְיֽוֹיָקִים֙and Joiakim
veyoyakimH3113 →4 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֶלְיָשִׁ֔יבEliashib
ʾelyashivH475 →17 times
וְאֶלְיָשִׁ֖יבand Eliashib
veelyashivH475 →17 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יוֹיָדָֽע׃Joiada
yoyada'H3111 →5 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 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 3:1At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 12:39
over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of…
- Jeremiah 31:38
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for Me, from the tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.
- John 5:2
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.
- Zechariah 14:10
All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the…
- Nehemiah 12:39
Through
Nehemiah 13:4Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God
it leads to
- Nehemiah 13:28
Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 12:44
And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these…
- Nehemiah 6:17–18
Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.
- Nehemiah 13:28
Through
Nehemiah 12:26They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 8:9
Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or…
- Nehemiah 8:9
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah; 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 Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.