Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.
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Interpretation
All our cities, all our houses, must have holiness to the Lord written upon them. The believer should undertake nothing which he does not dedicate to the Lord.
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This thought runs through Nehemiah 12:27-31.
Glossary
- Jerusalem Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jerusalem.
- Azmaveth Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Hizma.
- Beth-gilgal Place
- House of Gilgal, a place from which the inhabitants gathered for the purpose of celebrating the rebuilding of the walls on the return exile ( Neh. 12:29 ). (See GILGAL. ). Modern identification: Khirbet el Mefjir.
- Geba Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Jaba.