SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:31
Hice luego subir a los príncipes de Judá sobre el muro, y puse dos coros grandes que fueron en procesión; el uno a la mano derecha sobre el muro hacia la puerta del Muladar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 12:31
Verse 31. Then I brought up the princes] Perhaps this verse should be read thus: "Then I caused the princes of Judah to go upon the wall, and appointed two great choirs, [to sing praises,] and two processions, one on the right hand, &c. The following seems to have been the order of the procession: he divided the priests, the Levites, the magistrates, and the people into two companies; each company to go round one half of the wall. They began at the dung gate, one party going to the right and the other to the left, till they met at the great space opposite to the temple, where they all offered many sacrifices to God, and rejoiced with exceeding great joy; shouting so that the noise was heard a great way off.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 31. Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall , etc.] Which was so broad as to walk upon it, and there was a procession of the princes on it at its dedication, and here is described the manner of it; the princes of Benjamin must be included here: and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks ; he divided the people who were met together to praise God on this occasion into two companies: whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall ; that is, on the southern part of it: towards the dung gate ; of which (see Nehemiah 2:13) some Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Ben Melech, give a different sense of twdwt yt ç , which we render “two companies”, and take them to be two eucharistical loaves of leavened bread, with which a rite or ceremony was performed at the enlargement of a court or city; at the utmost boundary of which those were carried, and one was eaten and the other burnt f79 ; which rite is thus described by Maimonides f80 , “how do they add to a city? the sanhedrim make two eucharistical sacrifices, and they take the leavened bread in them, and the sanhedrim go after the two eucharistical sacrifices, which follow one another, and they stand with harps, and psalteries, and cymbals, at every corner and at every stone in Jerusalem, and say, I will extol thee, for thou hast lifted up, etc. (( Psalm 30:1)) until they come to the end of the place they consecrate, there they stand and eat the thanksgiving loaf, one of the two, and the other is burnt.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 27-43 - All our cities, all our houses, must have holiness to the Lord writte upon them. The believer should undertake nothing which he does no dedicate to the Lord. We are concerned to cleanse our hands, and purif our hearts, when any work for God is to pass through them. Those tha would be employed to sanctify others, must sanctify themselves, and se themselves apart for God. To those who are sanctified, all their creature-comforts and enjoyments are made holy. The people greatl rejoiced. All that share in public mercies, ought to join in publi thanksgivings.
Original Hebrew
ואעלה 5927 את 853 שׂרי 8269 יהודה 3063 מעל 5921 לחומה 2346 ואעמידה 5975 שׁתי 8147 תודת 8426 גדולת 1419 ותהלכת 8418 לימין 3225 מעל 5921 לחומה 2346 לשׁער 8179 האשׁפת׃ 830
