* Who hitherto waited.
The original is {we(8464) hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes
consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over
the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which
the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here
nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and
contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but
the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it
contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred
writer here being to give the names of those who came first,
(ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the
tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes
of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to
return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions
mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish
people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common
Israelites, and Nethinims.
* the king's.
1Ki 10:5 2Ki 11:19 Eze 44:2,3 46:1,2 Ac 3:11
* they.
26:12-19
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