All Commentaries on Nehemiah 2:11 Go To Nehemiah 2
Bede
AD 735
And the people blessed the men that willingly offered themselves to settle in Jerusalem. We too should make the sublime life of the elect, which we cannot follow by imitating it, ours by praising and venerating it.6 It should be noted according to the true record of sacred history that there were no others who are said to have settled in Jerusalem than those who were from the tribe of Judah and Benjamin and the Lévites.1 For it clearly goes on:
