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

Perez. —In 1 Chronicles 9:0 the descendants of Perez (or Phares) are not given; but the descendants of Zerah, present …

And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin It belonging partly to one tribe…

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…