Now those that sealed were
That sealed the covenant, made ( Nehemiah
9:38 ) .
Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah;
the governor of the Jews:
and Zidkijah;
who seems also to have been a prince, since, without, it could
not be said it was sealed by their princes, ( Nehemiah
9:38 ) though some think both these were priests, and then
the princes must be supposed to be among the chief of the people,
( Nehemiah
10:14 ) , from hence to the end of the twenty seventh their
names follow; the names of the priests, ( Nehemiah
10:2-8 ) , who were in all twenty one; no mention is made
either of Eliashib the high priest, nor of Ezra the priest and
scribe; some think the former had not behaved well in his office,
and that the latter was either sick, or returned to Babylon, or
however hindered by some providence or another, since we hear of
him both a little before and after, ( Nehemiah 8:2
Nehemiah
8:13 ) ( 12:36 )
then the names of the Levites, ( Nehemiah
10:9-13 ) , in all seventeen, most of which we have met with
in this book before; next follow the names of the chief of the
people, ( Nehemiah
10:14-27 ) , their number in all forty four; and their names
may be observed in the list of those that came out of Babylon
with Zerubbabel; the whole number of those that sealed, princes,
priests, Levites, and chief of the people, were eighty four.
