John Trapp on Nehemiah 10:38
Commentary or Exposition. Browse this work.
Read Nehemiah 10. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Nehemiah10:38
Verſe 38. And the Prieſt the Son of Aaron] That Son of Aaron by an eminency, the High-Prieſt.
Shall be with the Levites] To ſee that right be done, and to make an equal diſtribution.
When the Levites take tythes] As their Due, and not as a benevolence from the people. Melchizedech tythed Abraham, Heb. 7.6. It is your reward or wages which you dearly earne, and may juſtly call for, Num. 19.31. The chief of the Levites demanded their due, when they were not thought of: but, by great over-ſight, were paſſed over in the diviſion, Joſh. 21.1.
And the Levites ſhall bring up] See the Note on verſe 37.
John Trapp, Commentary or Exposition, Nehemiah 10:38. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.