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Nehemiah 11:23

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

For [it was] the king’s commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.

Nehemiah 11:23 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Nehemiah 11:23

Theological / Devotional

The king’s commandment. Not that of David, who once regulated the services of the Levites (1 Chron. 25), but of the Persian king Artaxerxes I, who, it appears, assigned a certain daily stipend from the royal revenue for the support of the singing Levites. The reason for this special favor may have been that the Levitical choir was to pray “for the life of the king, and of his sons” (Ezra 6:10), and that the few singing Levites who returned from Babylon had to be on constant duty in the Temple.

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