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children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/nehemiah/7.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a 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id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/nehemiah/7.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>7:5-73 Nehemiah knew that the safety of a city, under God, depends more upon the inhabitants than upon its walls. Every good gift and every good work are from above. God gives knowledge, he gives grace; all is of him, and therefore all must be to him. What is done by human prudence, must be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. But woe to those who turn back from the Lord, loving this present world! and happy those who dedicate themselves, and their substance, to his service and glory!<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/nehemiah/7.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>It is argued by some that the entire catalogue which follows <a href="http://biblehub.com/nehemiah/7-7.htm">Nehemiah 7:7-73</a> is not the register of them "which came up 'at the first'," but of the Jewish people in Nehemiah's time. <a href="/nehemiah/7-7.htm">Nehemiah 7:7</a> and <a href="/ezra/2-2.htm">Ezra 2:2</a> are, however, very positive in their support of the usual view; and some of the arguments against it are thought to be met by considering the Nehemiah of <a href="/nehemiah/7-7.htm">Nehemiah 7:7</a> and <a href="/ezra/2-2.htm">Ezra 2:2</a> a person different from Nehemiah the governor; and "Tirshatha" an official title likely to have belonged to others besides Nehemiah (see the <a href="/ezra/2-63.htm">Ezra 2:63</a> note.) <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/nehemiah/7.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Ne 7:5-38. Genealogy of Those Who Came at the First Out of Babylon.<p>5. my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, &c.—The arrangement about to be described, though dictated by mere common prudence, is, in accordance with the pious feelings of Nehemiah, ascribed not to his own prudence or reflection, but to the grace of God prompting and directing him. He resolved to prepare a register of the returned exiles, containing an exact record of the family and ancestral abode of every individual. While thus directing his attention, he discovered a register of the first detachment who had come under the care of Zerubbabel. It is transcribed in the following verses, and differs in some few particulars from that given in Ezr 2:1-61. But the discrepancy is sufficiently accounted for from the different circumstances in which the two registers were taken; that of Ezra having been made up at Babylon, while that of Nehemiah was drawn out in Judea, after the walls of Jerusalem had been rebuilt. The lapse of so many years might well be expected to make a difference appear in the catalogue, through death or other causes; in particular, one person being, according to Jewish custom, called by different names. Thus Hariph (Ne 7:24) is the same as Jorah (Ezr 2:18), Sia (Ne 7:47) the same as Siaha (Ezr 2:44), &c. Besides other purposes to which this genealogy of the nobles, rulers, and people was subservient, one leading object contemplated by it was to ascertain with accuracy the parties to whom the duty legally belonged of ministering at the altar and conducting the various services of the temple. For guiding to exact information in this important point of enquiry, the possession of the old register of Zerubbabel was invaluable.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/nehemiah/7.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/nehemiah/7.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>These are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity,.... Who were of the province of Judea, as it was now reduced, and came up out of the captivity of Babylon through the edict of Cyrus; see <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2-1.htm">Ezra 2:1</a>, where the same preface is given to the list of names as here; and from hence to the end of <a href="/nehemiah/7-69.htm">Nehemiah 7:69</a> the same account is given of persons and families as there, with some little difference of numbers and names; in some instances there are more in this list, in others fewer, which may be thus accounted for; that list was made in Babylon, when, upon the edict of Cyrus, the Jews, who intended to go up with Zerubbabel, gave in their names, and they were registered; but this was made when they came to Jerusalem; now some of those that gave in their names changed their minds, and tarried in Babylon, and some might die by the way, which makes the numbers fewer in some instances; and others who did not give in their names at first, but, being better disposed towards their own country, followed after and joined those which were returning, and increased the number of others; to which may be added what Abendana observes, that in Ezra an account is given of those that came out of the captivity by the companies, in which they came not genealogized, and had a mixture of persons of other families in them, and some that had no genealogy; but afterwards, when they were genealogized according to their families, a register of their genealogies was made, and is what Nehemiah now found, and here gives; and, as for difference of names, that may be owing to the carelessness of copiers, or to the different pronunciation of names, or some men might have two names; the matter is of no great moment. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/nehemiah/7.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/nehemiah/7.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">15</span>. <span class="ital">Binnui</span>] = Bani in Ezra: cf. <a href="/nehemiah/10-14.htm" title="The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,">Nehemiah 10:14</a>; <a href="http://apocrypha.org/1_esdras/5-12.htm" title="The sons of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four: the sons of Zathui, nine hundred forty and five: the sons of Corbe, seven hundred and five: the sons of Bani, six hundred forty and eight:">1Es 5:12</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/nehemiah/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 15.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Binnui</span>. Ezra has "Bani," which receives confirmation from <a href="/nehemiah/10-14.htm">Nehemiah 10:14</a> and 1 Esdras 5:12. Nehemiah 7:15<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/nehemiah/7.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>And God put into my heart, i.e., God inspired me with the resolution; comp. <a href="/nehemiah/2-12.htm">Nehemiah 2:12</a>. What resolution, is declared by the sentences following, which detail its execution. The resolution to gather together the nobles and rulers of the people for the purpose of making a list of their kinsmen, and thus to obtain a basis for the operations contemplated for increasing the inhabitants of Jerusalem. והסּגנים החרים are combined, as in <a href="/nehemiah/2-16.htm">Nehemiah 2:16</a>. On התיחשׂ, comp. <a href="/1_chronicles/5-17.htm">1 Chronicles 5:17</a>.<p>While this resolve was under consideration, Nehemiah found the register, i.e., the genealogical registry, of those who came up at first (from Babylon). בּראשׁונה, at the beginning, i.e., with Zerubbabel and Joshua under Cyrus (<a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/2.htm">Ezra 2</a>), and not subsequently with Ezra (<a href="http://biblehub.com/ezra/7.htm">Ezra 7</a>). "And I found written therein." These words introduce the list now given. 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