Nehemiah 12:5

Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Miamin	מִיָּמִ֥ין mi.ya.Min	H4326	Mijamin · proper noun, a man's name
Maadiah	מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה ma.'ad.Yah	H4573	Maadjah · proper noun, a man's name
Bilgah	בִּלְגָּֽה bil.Gah	H1083	Bilgah · proper noun, a man's name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 12:1-26

We have here the names, and little more than the names, of a great many priests and Levites, that were eminent in their day among the returned Jews. Why this register should be here inserted by Nehemiah does not appear, perhaps to keep in remembrance those good men, that posterity might know to whom they were beholden, under God, for the happy revival and re-establishment of their religion among them. Thus must we contribute towards the performance of that promise, Psa 112:6, The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. Let the memory of the just be blessed, be perpetuated. It is a debt we still owe to faithful ministers to remember our guides, who have spoken to us the word of God, He…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 12:4

Abijah--one of the ancestors of John the Baptist (Luk 1:5).

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 12:1

Now these are the priests - Not the whole, but the chief of them, as we are informed, Neh 12:7, Neh 12:22, Neh 12:23, and Neh 12:24. The Septuagint omit Neh 12:3, except the word Shechaniah; as also Neh 12:4, Neh 12:5,Neh 12:6, Neh 12:9,Neh 12:37, Neh 12:38, Neh 12:39, Neh 12:40, and Neh 12:41. The Arabic omits the first twenty-six verses, and Neh 12:29. Mention is made of Ezra in this verse; and he is generally allowed to be that Ezra whose book the reader has already passed over, and who came to Jerusalem in the time of Cyrus, with Zerubbabel. If this were the same, he must have been at this time upward of a hundred years of age: and this case is not improbable, as an especial providence m…

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John Gill on Nehemiah 12:2

Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,.... Whose names are among the sealers of the covenant, Nehemiah 10:3. Malluch is afterwards called Melicu, Nehemiah 12:14, Shechaniah, called Shebaniah, Nehemiah 12:14 and so in Nehemiah 10:4 Rehum, who, by transposition of letters, is Harim, Nehemiah 12:15, and so in Nehemiah 10:5. Meremoth, called Meraioth, Nehemiah 12:15, Iddo, Ginnetho, read Ginnethon, Nehemiah 12:16 so in Nehemiah 10:6. Abijah; there was a course of a priest of this name, of which Zechariah the father of John the Baptist was, Luke 1:5. Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah; the first two are called Miniamin and Moadiah, Nehemiah 12:17. Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah, Sallu; called Sallai, Nehemiah 12:20.…

The Church Fathers

So you say to me: Behold the Law prohibits the removal of a pledge, not its acceptance: but it commands that it be returned to the poor, not to everyone. But Ezra also taught us about the bodily pledges, that now, moneylenders, you are not able to come against the profession of your fathers. For when those who had lent money were commanded, and they had taken the pledges of others, to return them, they said: We return them, and we seek nothing from them. Good fathers, who established that the pledges of debtors should be returned: also good moneylenders who responded that they would both return the pledges and not require the money that they had given. And the judgment of your paternal position binds you to this, as well as the statement of the creditors.
— Ambrose of Milan, On Tobit

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Dictionary and topics

Bilgah — Cheerful. (1.) The head of the fifteenth sacerdotal course for the temple service (1 Chr. 24:14). (2.) A priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:5, 18).
Ezra — Help. (1.) A priest among those that returned to Jerusalem under Zerubabel (Neh. 12:1). (2.) The “scribe” who led the second body of exiles that returned from Babylon to Jerusalem B.C. 459, and…
Maadiah — one of the priests who returned with Zerubbabel, (Nehemiah 12:5) elsewhere (ver. (Nehemiah 12:17)) called Moadiah.
Miamin — =Mijamin, from the right hand. (1.) The head of one of the divisions of the priests (1 Chr. 24:9). (2.) A chief priest who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh. 12:5), called Mijamin (10:7) and…
Nehemiah — Comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Neh. 7:7. (2.) Neh. 3:16. (3.) The son of Hachaliah (Neh. 1:1), and probably of the tribe of Judah. His family must have belonged to Jerusalem (Neh. 2:3). He was…
Bilgah · 2. A priest — 2. A priest
Maadiah · A priest — A priest
Miamin · 2. A priest who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon — 2. A priest who returned with Zerubbabel from Babylon
Nehemiah · .Register of the priests and Levites — .Register of the priests and Levites

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Nehemiah 12:5

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 12:1-26

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 12:4

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 12:1

John Gill on Nehemiah 12:2

The Church Fathers

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Nehemiah 12:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 12:1-26

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nehemiah 12:4

Adam Clarke on Nehemiah 12:1

John Gill on Nehemiah 12:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Nehemiah 12:1-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Nehemiah 12:1-26

Rashi on Nehemiah 12:1