Nehemiah 12:22
22 As for the Levites , the heads of fathers' households were registered in the days of Eliashib , Joiada , and Johanan and Jaddua ; so were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian .
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Nehemiah 12:22
Commentary on Nehemiah 12:1-26
(Read Nehemiah 12:1-26)
It is a debt we owe to faithful ministers, to remember our guides, who have spoken to us the word of God. It is good to know what our godly predecessors were, that we may learn what we should be.