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Nehemiah 12:1

Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
, and chap. xiii. 28. (Haydock) Usher (the year of the world 3602) maintains that Johanan was pontiff under Memnon.

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Priests. But not all, as some are omitted. See ver. 7, 22 Josue, or Jesus, the high priest. Esdras, the famous scribe, who is supposed to have returned to Babylon, and to have been living under Nehemias, who came to Jerusalem 81 years after Zorobabel. If, therefore, Esdras was only 20 years old at the former period, he must have lived above 100 years, (Calmet) which is not improbable. (Lyranus; Tirinus) He returned again with many of his countrymen, by the king's leave. (Worthington)

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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