Nechemyah 12:23

23 The Bnei Levi, the rashei haAvot, were written in the Sefer Divrei Hayamim, even until the days of Yochanan ben Elyashiv.

Nechemyah 12:23 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 12:23

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in
the book of the chronicles
Some think this refers to ( 1 Chronicles 9:14 )

until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib;
from whence Dr. Lightfoot ^F16 concludes, that the Chronicles were written by Ezra in the times of this Johanan.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Works, vol. 1. p. 146.

Nechemyah 12:23 In-Context

21 Of Chilkiyah, Chashavyah; of Yedayah, Netanel.

22 The Levi’im in the days of Elyashiv, Yoyada, and Yochanan, and Yaddua, were recorded rashei haAvot; also the kohanim, to the reign of Daryavesh the Persian.

23 The Bnei Levi, the rashei haAvot, were written in the Sefer Divrei Hayamim, even until the days of Yochanan ben Elyashiv.

24 And the chiefs of the Levi’im: Chashavyah, Sherevyah, and Yeshua ben Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the mitzvat Dovid Ish HaElohim, choir opposite choir.

25 Matanyah, and Bakbukyah, Ovadyah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akuv, were gatekeepers keeping the storerooms of the gates.