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John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 8:17
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief, at the place Casiphia, etc.] Not a place by the Caspian sea, and near the Caspian mountains, as Munster, which was too far off to go and return in the time they must, (see <150709>Ezra 7:9 8:15,31), but, as Jarchi, a place in Babylon so called, a village near it, or a parish or street in it, where Ezra knew lived many of the Levites and Nethinims, and where Iddo was the chief of the Levites, and over them both: and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia; but Iddo was not one of the Nethinims; for he was chief of the Levites, and by his authority many of them were sent as well as of the Nethinims; but none of the latter were over the Levites, for they were servants to them, (<150820>Ezra 8:20), but, according to Jarchi, the Nethinims are not at all intended in this clause, who reads the words, to Iddo and Achim, (the name of a man with him; perhaps it may be better rendered, “to Iddo and his brother”,) who were appointed, or settled, in the place Casiphia; and with him Deuteronomy Dieu agrees, and so the Syriac version, who dwelt in Casiphia: that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God; both Levites to be singers and porters there, and the Nethinims to wait on them.
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