OLD TESTAMENT

Nehemiah 11:2

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The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

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Verse 2. Blessed. Applauding their zeal and disinterestedness, as the city was yet only a heap of ruins. Calmet.—Some from the other ten tribes returned; but the transactions of three tribes are more particularly noticed. V. Bede. Worthington.

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