See the marginal reference notes. Both accounts appear to be extracts from a public official register that Nehemiah had prepared for his census. Th…

The heads in Jerusalem: the list, as compared with 1 Chronicles 9:0, is by no means complete. Judah and Benjamin are represented, with …

And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Asaph
Zabdi is called Zi…

In all ages, people have preferred their own ease and advantage to the public good. Even the profe ors of religion too commonly seek their own, and…